RESOURCES

Downloadable guides, activities, and tools — free for all educators

Activity Guides

Recipes for Nature Play

• Story Stones
• Nature Mandala
• Leaf Puppets
• Recipe Card: Homemade Suet Cakes
• Recipe Card: Pine Needle Tea

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Sample Parent Handbook Policies

Forest Preschool Parent Guide: The Rewilding School

West Chester County, NY

Parent Handbook: Lime Hollow Forest School

Cortland, NY

Family Handbook, Little Leaf Preschool
Andrus-on-Hudson, NY

Family Handbook: Pathways to Nature Preschool
Boston, MA

Parent Handbook: NatureYear at Common Ground
New Haven, CT

Parent & Guardian Handbook: Nature Preschool at Irvine Nature Center, Owings Mills, MD

Policies and suggestions on how to face colonization and perspectives of indigenous peoples in a respectful way by Tracks Forest School & Outdoor Learning in NH.

Ideas for Public & Traditional Schools

7 Ways Nature-Based Learning Takes Root in Existing Nature-Based Preschools (and many other helpful posts) are on the Natural Start Alliance's website, which is a project of NAAEE.

The Children & Nature Network has a suite of infographics and an amazing research database which are wonderful tools to support nature-based learning.

Benefits of Connecting Children with Nature is a resource produced by the Natural Learning Initiative from NC State University. It's a quick, informative read for teachers and parents alike.

Head Start Early Learning and Knowledge Center features a series of videos that demonstrate how centers and schools can incorporate nature-based learning.

Out of the Classroom and Into the Woods, an NPR interview with Eliza Minnucci from the Ottauquechee School in Vermont about forest immersion programs in public schools.

Best Day Ever is a video that highlights outdoor learning in Vermont public schools.

UK Forest School Principles, a blog post that highlights how to incorporate them into your curriculum. 

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