Schematic Play Outdoors

You’ve noticed that you have a child that loves to build towers in the Duplo and enjoys making the train track. They’ve loved taking the wheels off the toy tractor they got as a present.

You recognise that this is the connecting schema and you go about offering more opportunities to explore this inside.

But what about when you’re outside?

Well I have 4 whole booklets and a course to share with you how to support play and schemas throughout the year in nature but here are just a few ideas for you today:

- Building a tower of pebbles at the beach
- Making snowballs and stacking them one on top of another
- Using Wiki sticks or string to temporarily join the trees together
- Creating a journey stick
- Working with Teifoc bricks in the sand outside
- Creating toy zip lines between the trees
- Building a bridge to get across a puddle or stream
- Building a structure to rescue a Teddy stuck up a tree
- Making leaf kebabs or using kebab food stones for threading with a stick

Don’t forget to check out my Wanderlust Child Nature Study Programme for more support. I also have a free download of Spring Schematic Play ideas to support you.