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Collapse ▲Enjoy these resources to support nature-based activities for early childhood care and education for families, providers and other professionals working with young children who want to use nature as a tool of engagement.
Nature provides endless opportunities to engage children’s nature curiosity and start foundational habits for a healthy life. Young children can plants seeds, watch bugs in the garden, smell fragrant herbs, create art with leaves, stones, and flowers while exercising their minds and bodies.
Cloud viewing is an easy way for children of any age to use their imagination to see shapes in the clouds of wonder what it might feel like to be a cloud floating by on a breezy day. Two cloud viewers at the links below, provide frames and the names of cloud types for further engagement.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Center for Science Education
Cloud viewer
Seacoast Science Center
Vermicomposting is an excellent way to bring children into reducing waste and can be scaled to any size space.
Vermicomposting in Childcare Center Gardens
Young children can pound eggshells to add to any form of composting or improve any soil.
Pounding Eggshells
Stone stacking is another simple but fun activity to engage young minds.
Stone Stacking
Many plants are easy to propagate, a very simple way is through rooting leaf blades.
Rooting with Leaf Blades
It is never to early to learn to reduce, reuse and recycle. This includes all forms of composting, but here are some other ideas to get you started.
Pre-cycling
Recycling
Here are two fun ways to check-in with kids to see how they are feeling on any given day. The black and white sheet can be used with crayons and color pencils to allow the children to color their own feelings and the color sheet can be laminated and used repeatedly with dry erase markers. To access the color sheet, right-click on the image, copy and paste into a word document for printing. If you are familiar with Canva, it is easy to create your own personalized check-in using their tools.
Black & White Emotions Check-in