Resources Outdoor Play

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General aspects with outdoor play

Brody, Jane E . Babies Know: A Little Dirt Is Good for You(In New York Times January 26, 2009)

DeBord, Karen Et al (?) Making the most of outdoor time with Preschool children. North Carolina State University.

Dietze, Beverlie (2016) A Blog; The importance of increasing children’s outdoor play opportunities (In Canadian Childcare Federation)

Goldstein,Jefferey (2012). Play in children’s development health and well-being

Rivkin, Mary S. (2000-12-00) Outdoor experinces for young children. 2000-12-00 ERIC Digest.

The Health impact with too much screen time by Nature Canada 

Thernstrom,Melanie The anti-helicopter parents plea: Let kids play ! (In The New York Times Magazine October 19,2016)

Risk In Play,and why we need risk in play

A playground tumble can do you good (In Spike Wednesday 14 November 2007)

Gray, Peter (2014) Risky Play : Why children love it and need it

Guldberg, Helene Don’t blame parents for ‘cotton-wool kids’ (In Spike Wednesday 6 August 2008)

National Children’s Bureau Play Safety Forum by Play England (2013). Managing risk in play provision: A Position Statement.

Sandseter,Ellen Beate Hansen (2007) Categorising risky play. In European Early Childhood Education

Rosin, Hanna. The overprotected kid. (In The Atlantic April 2014)

What’s wrong with America’s Playgrounds and how to fix them: An interview with Frost. In American Journal of Play 2008 : http://www.journalofplay.org/sites/www.journalofplay.org/files/pdf-articles/1-2-interview-whats-wrong-with-americas-playgrounds-
Environmental
Chawla, Louise Learning to love the natural world, Enough to protect it .-  In Barn nr. 2 2006:57-78,ISSN 0800-1669 –Norsk senter for barneforskning. Norway

Kristof, Nicholas. How to Lick a Slug (In New York Times August 1, 2009)

Yerkas, Rita/Haras (January 12, 1999) Outdoor Education and Environmental Responsibility. Kidsource.com

White, Randy, Stoecklin, Vicki.Children’s (March/April 1998) Outdoor Play & Learning Environments : Returning to Nature. Early Childhood News magazine.

Language academic
Brown, Pei-San et al. (April 2000) The devolopment benefits of playgrounds. Children’s Institute for Learning and Development.

Norquist, Tom. The importance of play 10/18/2005 IPEMA.

Rivkin, Mary (1995) Natural Learning : Guide your child’s curiosity outdoors and open up a love of science.

Robertson, Juliet (2017) Messy Maths: A Playful, Outdoor Approach for Early Years
Obesity/physical development

Active Play experiences help young children develop physical literacy (2014 in Active For Life)

Back to nature and the emerging child saving movement : Restoring children’s outdoor play (In C&NN Leadership writing series Volume one number 3)


Brown, Pei-San et al. Combating Childhood Obesity with Physical Play Opportunities. (In January 2014 In PTO Today
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Canada’s report card on physical activity for children and youth- 2015 : The biggest risk is keeping kids outdoors.Active Healthy kids.

Gabriel,Danielle Douglas. Fighting childhood obesity, one playground at a time (In August 12.2015 Washington Post)

Fjørtoft, I. (2004) Landscape as playscape : learning effects from playing in a natural environment on motor development in children – Norway, Telemark University College
Physical Literacy – Active For Life

Smith, Nick (2010) Disappering outdoors : The changing nature of childhood play.- Dr Lason ENVR 395

ADHD
Lawson, Willow (Mar/Apr 2004) ADHD’s outdoor cure. Finding relief in wide open spaces : Playing outdoors may curb the disorder. In Psychology today

Lappin, Edward (April 20, 2000) Outdoor education for behavior disordered Students. In Kidsource online

Parker-Hope,Tara (October 17, 2008) In Study: Nature walks help kids concentrate. In New York Times, Well blog

Activities

Backyard Nature Fun from Go Explore Nature

Outdoor play ideas for small children : Play Outside !

Outdoor activites and play ideas for toddlers and preschoolers by Happy Hooligans

Outdoor play ideas from Active For Life

Simple Outdoor play (winter,spring,summer,fall) ideas from Active Kids Club

Play in nature ideas from Rain or Shine Mama

50 Simple Outdoor activites from Flash Cards

30 Classic Games for Simple Outdoor Play

60 nature play ideas from The Imagination Tree

Outdoor : daycare, preschools, kindergartens, schools

Naturskolan in Lund(Nature school in Sweden)

Nature Preschools in Us

Forest Schools in Canada in Child & Nature Alliance

Gordon, Andrea ( 2013) Star Dispatches :

Why the modern classroom is moving outside

Insights from Norway

Norway the daycare generation but it is outdoors

Norwegian Daycare (project snow and water)

Norway school : climbing trees

For more information about outdoor daycares in Norway search friluftsliv (outdoor life) barnehage (daycare)

Nature Play Film documentary about forest schools & education and friluftsliv from Norway, Sweden and Denmark

Start an Outdoor Playgroup

Podcast about how to start an outdoor playgroup

Join the outdoor playgroup movement

Tips about how to organize an outdoor playgroup

Friluftsliv (outdoor life)

Comparing friluftsliv to England

Gelter, Hans et al  (2000) Friluftsliv the Scandinavian philosophy way of outdoor life

Friluftsliv in Macs Adventure

Finding friluftsliv in Norway.

Friluftsliv in the Norwegian lower Secondary School

Website in English about articles about friluftsliv

Playgrounds and design

Adventure playground : a children’s world in the city
Information about adventure playgrounds.

Natural playground

Raver, Anne (October 7, 1999) Tutored by the Great Outdoors at a Southern Pines Playground. In New York Times.

Playground design  blogs

Playscapes

Playgroundology

Useful Websites

Active Healthy Kids Canada

Child & Nature Aliance

Children and Nature Network

The Free Play Network in UK aims to promote greater public understanding of the need for better play opportunities for children, by promoting discussion, exchange of information, and guidance on best practice in development of children’s play opportunities


Education.com . Nature Deficit Disorder
The Critical Role of Environmental Education for your Child’s Future

Kaboom

National Institute For Play

National Wildlife Federation
NWF inspires Americans to protect wildlife for children’s future.

Let’s Go Outside

Playworks

IPA, International Play Association
Promoting the Childs right to play

Screentime.org


UNICEF-Child friendly Cities
The Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) was launched in 1996 to act on the resolution passed during the second UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) to make cities livable places for all; in UNICEF terms, for “children first.” The Conference declared that the well-being of children is the ultimate indicator of a healthy habitat, a democratic society and of good governance.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child challenges cities to reflect on themselves, of the services, amenities and quality of life they provide, in a new way. Approaches and participatory urban management that promotes the realization of the rights of the youngest citizens.
http://www.childfriendlycities.org/about/index.html

Outdoor Play Blogs

Caro and Co

Children at Play 

Free -Range kids

 Go Explore Nature

Kindling

Learning for Life

Peaceful Playgrounds

Playborhood

Playworks blog

Rain or Shine Mamma

Wilder Child

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Outdoor Family adventure Blogs

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