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Nature Play
What is Nature Play and can it be part of Adelaide Hills Council?
Nature play is a concept to encourage children to spend more time playing outdoors using their imaginations in a natural setting. It inspires open-ended possibilities for self-designed play, creativity, learning and socialising.
In the past, playing outside in nature was a part of everyday, normal childhood experience. Many of us have fond memories of time spent outdoors riding our bikes around the neighbourhood, swinging from the clothesline, climbing trees, playing backyard games of cricket or soccer that spilled out onto the street, picking fruit straight from home-grown trees, camping, bushwalking and picnics in our beautiful national parks.
‘Muddy Puddles & Painted Sunsets’ is a short film produced by Nature Play SA. It tells the story of childhood, how children’s play has changed and how we are facing disconnection from the natural world. It captures the freedom, fun, risk and adventure that characterised the childhood we remember as adults.
Muddy Puddles and Painted Sunsets has been filmed in some of SA’s most beautiful natural places (including our own Woorabinda Reserve in Stirling!).
We hope you will enjoy the 8 mins viewing time to recall your childhood, to remember how it felt to be outside and free, and to use it to inspire and encourage your children to be outside in unstructured play in nature, just as you did.
What is Nature Play and can it be part of Adelaide Hills Council?
Nature play is a concept to encourage children to spend more time playing outdoors using their imaginations in a natural setting. It inspires open-ended possibilities for self-designed play, creativity, learning and socialising.
In the past, playing outside in nature was a part of everyday, normal childhood experience. Many of us have fond memories of time spent outdoors riding our bikes around the neighbourhood, swinging from the clothesline, climbing trees, playing backyard games of cricket or soccer that spilled out onto the street, picking fruit straight from home-grown trees, camping, bushwalking and picnics in our beautiful national parks.
‘Muddy Puddles & Painted Sunsets’ is a short film produced by Nature Play SA. It tells the story of childhood, how children’s play has changed and how we are facing disconnection from the natural world. It captures the freedom, fun, risk and adventure that characterised the childhood we remember as adults.
Muddy Puddles and Painted Sunsets has been filmed in some of SA’s most beautiful natural places (including our own Woorabinda Reserve in Stirling!).
We hope you will enjoy the 8 mins viewing time to recall your childhood, to remember how it felt to be outside and free, and to use it to inspire and encourage your children to be outside in unstructured play in nature, just as you did.
