Health and Wellbeing
Get Outside and Bond: Simple Ideas to Try
Use outdoor play and nature to connect with children and young people, with simple, low-cost activities for every age.
- 54 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Choose outdoor activities that suit a child's age, needs and confidence
- Balance risk-taking so anxious children try more and daredevils stay safe
- Lead an awe walk or tactile walk as a calming, shared experience
- Use making and building outdoors to help children feel they belong
- Explain how time in nature helps regulation and wellbeing
About this course
Some children can't find the words across a table. Put them in a stream with a net, or halfway up a tree, and the connection often comes with barely a word said.
Nature calms the body, and a bit of daring builds confidence and grit, which helps both the anxious child who avoids every risk and the thrill-seeker who can't settle. You'll get plenty to try: awe walks, den building, puddle hunts, tactile walks, stone painting and more. They work with children in the early years right up to young adults, including those with SEND or a history of trauma, and there's a handout of activities to take away.
The ideas come from an occupational therapist and mum who uses the outdoors in her therapy work and with her own family.
- For early career teachers, governors and 6 other roles. All phases.
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- 39 min
Webinar Playback
- 16 min
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