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Spending Just One Hour In Nature Could Reduce Stress In The Brain
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‘Bush kinder’ builds early understanding of STEM fundamentals
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Let the Children Play
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Bush Kinder: nature, wellbeing and resilience
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Nature Play in early years education
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Bush kindergarten says ‘yes’ to bugs and dirt
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Saying child care is an ‘essential service’, Greens release plan for free early education and care
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Canadian doctors will soon be able to prescribe trips to the country’s national parks
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Our Children’s Busyness Is Not A Badge of Honour (And Why We Need To Change It)
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‘Trying to push the conversation’: the inner west playground dividing parents
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Children love muck and dirt: Now planners are helping a new generation to wild play
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‘Forest kindergarten’ kids have class outside every day, even in the snow
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Free-Range Parenting: Do Children Need More Independence?
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Learning in Nature: The Benefits of Forest School
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Forest kids and the movement towards outdoor learning
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UniSA conducts world first review of the importance of nature play
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Flow Learning in a Forest Kindergarten
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‘Let them be kids!’ Is ‘free-range’ parenting the key to healthier, happier children?
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Nature Play in Urban Landscapes
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Wanting words: Language and landscape
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You don’t need to be in a classroom to learn. Enter the Forest School.
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Local kindy bush tucker garden plants global ideas
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Free-range kids could become healthier, happier adults
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Nature Play runs experimental pilot program to encourage ‘free-range kids’ in communities
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Perth primary school allows kids to go barefoot
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Empathy? In Denmark they’re learning it in school
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Can children be free in a city?
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Forest schools flourish as youngsters log off and learn from nature
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A growing movement of nature-oriented outdoor preschools takes off
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Sustainable Play Preschool wins Launch of the Year Award in PETA Vegan Awards 2021
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Your yard is a universe
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Ecotherapy highlights benefits of immersing anxious, stressed kids in nature
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‘Crucial to the life of a child’: The crisis facing child’s play
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Study: Kids Who Grow Up Surrounded By Nature Become Happier Adults
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Children need to spend time outdoors in nature
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Children with access to nature are mentally and physically healthier
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Top Tips For Creating A Bush Tucker Garden
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Daycare centres are exposing children to risky play, and there are unexpected results
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Being in nature is good for learning, here’s how to get kids off screens and outside
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Access to quality outdoor play is a public health necessity
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Want to reduce your food waste at home?
Want to reduce your food waste at home? Here are the 6 best evidence-based ways to do it. Read more here.
Research proves that kids go wild for WILD PLAY at Centennial Park
Did you know that the average Australian child spends less time outside than a maximum-security prisoner? At Centennial Parklands they’re committed to helping families across NSW to connect with nature, get healthy, and learn all while having fun in their beautiful...
Nature Play for NSW – Insights and recommendations
Yesterday Minister Rob Stokes, Minister for Planning and Public Spaces and the team at Centennial Parklands launched the Nature Play for NSW - Insights and Recommendations report. Exciting times to hear the Minister advocate for the importance of nature play and so...
The Dawn Chorus
We don’t always see the birds. But there is a mystical element to closing our eyes and drenching our ears to birdsong – we feel it. It is a three-dimensional experience: some birds are high up in the branches, others down low; some close, others far; and certainly,...
Children learn science in nature play long before they get to school classrooms and labs
Children learn science in nature play long before they get to school classrooms and labs. Find out more.