Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment

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 that:

Requires minimal financial resources

Features loose parts and upcycled materials

Integrates nature

Includes inspiring photos of before and after transformations

Offers design tips and material lists

Describes 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

Author: Lisa Daly
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 01/18/2022
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.8lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781605547381