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The Importance of a Playscape
A nature-based playscape provides a valuable alternative to traditional playgrounds. Unlike traditional playgrounds, a natural playscape allows children to interact with and manipulate nature on their own terms, engages all five senses, and creates many opportunities for different types of play with less prescriptive objects. Children using a nature-based playscape often play for longer periods of time, engage in more imaginative play, and interact and problem solve together as they build in the sand area or create games and worlds of their own using natural objects.
Natural outdoor play environments have been shown to improve creativity as well as diversity and imaginative concepts of play, in turn fostering language development and collaborative skills. By increasing their awareness, reasoning and observational skills with exposure to natural outdoor spaces, young children can enhance their academic skills and improve their cognitive development. Furthermore, play in natural environments has been found to increase physical activity, motor coordination and balance in young children.
Natural outdoor play environments have been shown to improve creativity as well as diversity and imaginative concepts of play, in turn fostering language development and collaborative skills. By increasing their awareness, reasoning and observational skills with exposure to natural outdoor spaces, young children can enhance their academic skills and improve their cognitive development. Furthermore, play in natural environments has been found to increase physical activity, motor coordination and balance in young children.
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In youth before I lost any of my senses, I can remember that I was all alive and inhabited my body with inexpressible satisfaction, both its weariness and its refreshment were sweet to me. This earth was the most glorious musical instrument and I was audience to its strains.
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