Monday, February 6, 2012

Natural Play Environments: Tree Forts

Venturing to find swords
A lovely surprise met us at the park this morning... Some fun folks had created a tree fort over the weekend with the wind-blown tree branches that covered the ground last week.  We spent 2 hours in the sunshine playing in the fort, adding some embellishments and creating adventures.

I'm intrigued about the concept of Outdoor Kindergarten and am looking forward to a conference in May to explore the ideas some more. In the meantime enjoying a beautiful morning outdoors seems natural, without being pegagogical!

Joyfully outdoors,
Caz.

Banana Bread exploring the new fort entrance

George using his wooden knife to break branches

Muffin Mouse in an unplanned, but perfect shirt today!

Planning fort construction

OK. So the original structure was there before this morning!

1 comment:

Jan said...

Love it! Wish we were outside playing without coats in February ;)