Nature Play PopUp

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Date(s): Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm
Venue: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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Matthaei Botanical Gardens will be holding Nature Play Pop-Ups at the Gaffield Children’s Garden.

Childhood outdoor play is supportive of healthy child development, the internalizing of pro-Earth behaviors, and provides deep opportunities for powerful self-directed learning. MBGNA’s Nature Play Pop-ups are lightly hosted opportunities to engage with some of their specially curated natural loose parts and other accessible objects of open-ended, creative play.

Based in Gaffield Children’s Garden, Nature Play Pop-ups are opportunities for children across ages and developmental stages to engage deeply, based on their own interests, curiosity, and developmental stages. For example, while some older children may be using the collections of natural loose parts to intently create a specific habitat, other children will be engaging in developmentally appropriate play of taking all the petals off the flowers in the loose parts collections. While some children will tenaciously experiment to create the largest bubbles, other children will be nearby splashing in the slippery solution.

All ways of playing are good & welcome Nature Play! Come play outside!

Popups will be held this fall on select Sundays from 2-3:30p and select Wednesdays from 4-5:30p.

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