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Playing outside without “equipment” -why it is so valuable!

11/16/2013

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When we play, we are giving ourselves permission to explore, to imagine, to make many many decisions about what we could do next.  
When playing outside – without prepared and preplanned “play equipment” a child will improvise.  A space between two trees can become a house.  A stick can become a tool.  More sticks can be leaned against the tree to create something to go in.  Still more sticks can define a road-way to go to a friend’s house of sticks.  A spot on the tree can become a doorbell.  Leaves become salad. 


This play can take a little more time to get started, but once begun, the ideas keep coming and children LOVE this. 
On the other hand, an adult-designed playground has more immediate intrigue for the young child but the possibilities are much more limited. 
So, provide your child with a little grove of trees and the possibilities are endless!

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    Deborah Costine

    Thanks for stopping in! 
    Since I am as interested in nature as I am in puppetry, my thoughts here will be about both.  My old house in a little neighborhood along the river provide me with daily opportunities for enjoying nature. I have a garden,two apple trees (which I love to climb and prune) plus a bit more lawn than I'd like.  I plant various shrubs and things to create pathways. From the back of my studio I can look almost directly down at the river. There is almost always someone paddling by; Mr Beaver, Ms Muskrat, The Otter twins- Nellie and MInnie, plus lots of ducks and geese - and the occasional human.

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