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"A magnificent resource for transforming backyards into stimulating environments which enhance children's creativity, learning, and fun." --Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods , The Nature Principle , and Vitamin N
Access to technology has created a generation of children who are more plugged in than ever before--often with negative consequences. But there is a solution. Unrestricted outdoor play helps reduce stress, improve health, and enhance creativity, learning, and attention span. In Nature Play at Home, Nancy Striniste gives you the tools you need to make outdoor adventures possible in your own backyard. With hundreds of inspiring ideas and illustrated, step-by-step projects, this hardworking book details how to create playspaces that use natural materials--like logs, boulders, sand, water, and plants of all kinds. Projects include hillside slides, seating circles, sand pits, and more.
Author Notes
Nancy Striniste is the founder and principal designer at EarlySpace, LLC. She has a background as both a landscape designer and an early childhood educator. She teaches at Antioch New England University in their nature-based early childhood graduate certificate program and serves on the leadership team of NoVA Outside. Read more about Nancy and her work at www.earlyspace.com .
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
Building tree houses, climbing trees, and playing ball in backyards are many adults' favorite childhood memories, but structured and supervised may better describe kids at present, with more time spent in front of screens and less time outdoors. Landscape designer and early childhood educator Striniste offers up some good news, however, producing this resource after receiving inquiries from families, schools, early childhood programs, and municipalities looking for places for their children to play in nature. Striniste advocates activities in parks, schoolyards, common spaces in communities, and backyards. Everyday materials such as pizza boxes, duct tape, and PAM cooking spray are used for some of the projects, with others requiring more expensive items. Enjoying gardens that engage the five senses, creating yard fixtures to attract wildlife, and making a butterfly-friendly area are but a few of the ideas included in this eye-catching volume. VERDICT Colorful and filled with great -solutions for connecting kids to the -natural world; highly recommended.-Julia M. -Reffner, Richmond, VA © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
The founder of website Earlyspace, with a background in both landscape design and early childhood education, Striniste shares her passion for creating outdoor spaces that connect children with nature in her first book. Beautifully illustrated chapters walk readers through the essential steps of creating their own natural playscapes, no matter the environment. Striniste begins with arranging spaces through welcoming entryways and winding pathways before sharing suggestions for inviting in nature with native plants and wildlife-friendly spaces, offering plentiful design choices along the way. With Striniste's guidance, natural playscapes can awaken the senses, challenge bodies, stir imagination, build confidence, and create comfort for all ages. If a complete redesign is too overwhelming, Strinsite includes 15 smaller hands-on projects to get started. Adults and children will delight in working together to build creations like hillside slides, mosaic streams, insect hotels, a living willow tunnel, and even a bamboo bower. Nature Play at Home is sure to inspire readers to take action in their backyards and encourage creative play in nature for years to come.--Melissa Norstedt Copyright 2019 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Building tree houses, climbing trees, and playing ball in backyards are many adults' favorite childhood memories, but structured and supervised may better describe kids at present, with more time spent in front of screens and less time outdoors. Landscape designer and early childhood educator Striniste offers up some good news, however, producing this resource after receiving inquiries from families, schools, early childhood programs, and municipalities looking for places for their children to play in nature. Striniste advocates activities in parks, schoolyards, common spaces in communities, and backyards. Everyday materials such as pizza boxes, duct tape, and PAM cooking spray are used for some of the projects, with others requiring more expensive items. Enjoying gardens that engage the five senses, creating yard fixtures to attract wildlife, and making a butterfly-friendly area are but a few of the ideas included in this eye-catching volume. VERDICT Colorful and filled with great solutions for connecting kids to the natural world; highly recommended. © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.