Nature Play at Home: Creating Outdoor Spaces that Connect Children with the Natural World

A wonderful resource for transforming gardens into stimulating environments that enhance children's creativity, learning, and enjoyment. Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, The Nature Principle, and Vitamin N.

Access to technology has created a generation of kids who are more wired 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 step-by-step illustrated projects, this hardworking book details how to create play spaces that use natural materials, like logs, rocks, sand, water, and plants of all kinds. Projects include hillside slides, sitting circles, sandboxes, and more.