Life is short, and childhood is even shorter! Get some use out of that wooden swing set — it can be used to enhance your family traditions. Make something old new again for your child's spring or summer birthday by making the swing set the centerpiece for creating a themed birthday party. This is a unique twist to an outdoor kids’ celebration, but it’s perfect...
Have you and your kids had an adventure today? This week? This month? This year? No? Well it's easier to put the TV on isn’t it? It’s less hassle to go shopping. The kids are busy and the adults need some down-time. What’s so great about doing things together anyway?
But just pause for just a minute and remember all those promises you made back when the house was a giant...
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An Interview with Richard Louv: Using the Nature Principle and Camps to Reduce Nature-Deficit Disorder – for Children and Adults
What progress have you seen in the movement to connect children and nature since you wrote Last Child in the Woods in 2005?
Last Child didn’t create the children and nature movement. That was already percolating, and America’s camps have always been part of that. But the book proved to be a useful tool, and I’m grateful for that. For the most part, it’s...
National Kids to Parks Day Set for May 19, 2012
ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Classroom Contest Encourages Kids to Plan New & Exciting Ways to Explore Outdoors
Children, parents and teachers are gearing up for this year's National Kids to Parks Day (KTP), a nation-wide day of outdoor play organized by National Park Trust (NPT) in...
Education in the Outdoors
By Erin Crowell
Playing in the mud is okay at HumaNature School
Listen closely to the birds in the forest canopy, taste the edible roots and feel the wind in your hair. This is part of a primary satisfaction – the moments we experience first-hand, inaccessible by television, recollections in a magazine or Facebook...Thank You Sarah (Frey) Rose and Frey Foundation! Over the 2011 holiday, Getting Kids Outdoors was honored to receive a donation from Ms. Sarah (Frey) Rose, trustee of the Frey Foundation. These funds are to be used to support GKO and its efforts to do what it does best - get kids outdoors! On behalf of Getting Kids Outdoors' volunteers and partners, we would like...
“Nature can be the clump of trees… or the ravine by the house. In terms of biodiversity, those places many not be that important, but to a child they can be a whole universe, where they can discover a sense of wonder. That is essential to our humanity, and we can't deny that to future generations.”
- Richard Louv
- Richard Louv
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