Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment

by Lisa Daly

Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment invites center and home-based educators to reimagine and reconstruct their image of conventional children’s play yards as they know them and to create beautiful outdoor learning spaces on a limited budget with natural elements and loose parts that offer children opportunity for irresistible engaging explorations. Ideas, inspiration, and benefits for changing outdoor environments are provided along with the basics for designing, transforming, and maintaining 11 specific outdoor play zones. Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment offers an approach

Requires minimal financial resourcesFeatures loose parts and upcycled materialsIntegrates natureIncludes inspiring photos of before and after transformationsOffers design tips and material listsDescribes how play in each area fosters children’s competencies, development, and learning in the areas of social and emotional, language and communication, cognitive, physical, and expressive arts

Genres: Parenting

252 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 18, 2022

Reviews

[Eileen Breseman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Skimmed this book for good ideas for when the grandson comes to visit. Many of these ideas are already present in our yard from our own children's growing up years. Excellent ideas to make outdoors fun, challenging and educational.