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Nature play at home : creating outdoor spaces that connect children with the natural world / Nancy Striniste, founder of EarlySpace ; illustrations by Jennifer Ren.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, Inc., 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 255 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 21 cmISBN:
  • 160469825X
  • 9781604698251
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GV191.63 .S77 2019
Contents:
Arranging spaces -- Awakening senses -- Challenging bodies -- Inviting nature -- Inspiring imagination -- Building confidence -- Creating comfort -- Taking action.
Summary: Garden designers and families will be inspired and educated by this illustrated guide to creating outdoor environments ideal for children's development, including watercourses, slides, edible plants, materials for shelter-building, movable parts for pretend play, swings, labyrinths, climbing areas, and more. (Miller Library Staff)Summary: Nature Play at Home is a hardworking and inspiring guide filled with ideas for incorporating natural materials and play structures into your yard to get your kids outside exploring and learning. Access to technology has created a generation of children who are more plugged in than ever before -- often with negative consequences. But there is a solution. Unrestricted outdoor play helps reduce stress, improve health, and enhance creativity, learning, and attention span. In Nature Play at Home, Nancy Striniste gives you the tools you need to make outdoor adventures possible in your own backyard. With hundreds of inspiring ideas and illustrated, step-by-step projects, this hardworking book details how to create playspaces that use natural materials -- like logs, boulders, sand, water, and plants of all kinds. Projects include hillside slides, seating circles, sand pits, and more. --
List(s) this item appears in: Outdoor Learning for Families
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection SB55 .S87 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800177255
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Arranging spaces -- Awakening senses -- Challenging bodies -- Inviting nature -- Inspiring imagination -- Building confidence -- Creating comfort -- Taking action.

Garden designers and families will be inspired and educated by this illustrated guide to creating outdoor environments ideal for children's development, including watercourses, slides, edible plants, materials for shelter-building, movable parts for pretend play, swings, labyrinths, climbing areas, and more. (Miller Library Staff)

Nature Play at Home is a hardworking and inspiring guide filled with ideas for incorporating natural materials and play structures into your yard to get your kids outside exploring and learning. Access to technology has created a generation of children who are more plugged in than ever before -- often with negative consequences. But there is a solution. Unrestricted outdoor play helps reduce stress, improve health, and enhance creativity, learning, and attention span. In Nature Play at Home, Nancy Striniste gives you the tools you need to make outdoor adventures possible in your own backyard. With hundreds of inspiring ideas and illustrated, step-by-step projects, this hardworking book details how to create playspaces that use natural materials -- like logs, boulders, sand, water, and plants of all kinds. Projects include hillside slides, seating circles, sand pits, and more. --

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