Greetings Forest School For All Members, Happy New Year! We’re grateful you joined us for forest fun in 2015. With a new year, 2016 kicks off an improved online experience, along with more benefits for you as members. Here are our two new features: New Website: Visit www.forestschoolforall.com for a…
Greetings Forest School For All Members, If you’ve visited the Forest School For All site this weekend, you may have noticed it is under maintenance. We’re currently working behind the scenes to bring you a new and improved online experience. We’re excited to unveil it – and all of it’s…
When anyone spends time in the great outdoors – exploring, creating and enjoying – there is an impact on the natural world. For when we put ourselves in a delicate ecosystem, we become part of that ecosystem. Some of the ways we do this is tremendous. We may (ahem) plant…
While you may have switched out of summer mode a couple of weeks ago, at the beginning of September, September 22 is officially the last day of summer. Tomorrow, we greet autumn, get to experience as much darkness as daylight, and can celebrate all that this new season will bring.…
Photograph Courtesy of family+footprints. Do you remember the buzz about the 1979 first grade readiness checklist a few years back? The one asking if your child could walk alone four plus blocks from home…at six years old? What a sign showing how much times had changed. Now 35 years…
Photograph Courtesy of family+footprints. You’ve probably heard endlessly about the benefits children get by being outdoors. Physical, social, emotional and educational benefits abound. For those of you who also opt for traditional schooling – where kids spend most of their days indoors – these two things can feel at…
Photograph Courtesy of family+footprints. There is something so powerful about giving children the opportunity to be in nature – to be still, to be active, to be creative, to challenge themselves. The benefits, well, they are seeming endless. But what about those of you who are thinking, sure that’s…
Photograph Courtesy of family+footprints. On my family’s cross-country road trip, we recently had the joy of exploring the Adventure Playground in Berkeley, CA – twice. Having enjoyed it so much, we went again, two days after our first visit. I knew some of what to expect going in, having…
Photograph Courtesy of family+footprints. Summer again is flying. It’s almost the end of August, and with that many children will soon be back in school, if not already. While each season brings new elements to explore and new aspects of life to help our little ones grow and develop, the…
We talk a lot about what unstructured outdoor play looks like for young children, the benefits for their growing minds and bodies. Those benefits do not stop after a certain age, though. They change, much like our children, as we age into youth – and onward to adults. But yet,…
