Episode 23: The Importance of Outdoor Play with Hope Helms, Urban Eden Farm School

Today we sit down with Hope Helms, a preschool teacher at Urban Eden Farm School in Spokane, WA to discuss what makes nature education programs so unique and how we can enrich our children’s learning through open-ended outside play and exploration.

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Show Notes

Greenplay Northwest, a non-profit that oversees Urban Eden Farm School as well as other forest and farm schools in Western WA.

http://www.greenplaynw.org/

Natural Start Alliance, a great resource for finding nature education programs anywhere in the world.

http://naturalstart.org/

Forest Schools

https://www.forestschoolassociation.org/what-is-forest-school/

Sleeping Queens - https://amzn.to/3iQhBrA

Outfoxed - https://amzn.to/3mzdodT

Wig Out - https://amzn.to/2ZRbV9h

Dragonwood - https://amzn.to/3hOIJWt

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