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1. Playing. As natural as it gets. ...: (Natural Playgrounds); Playing is one of the most natural things in the world. At least it should be. Although we might have our own views of what playing should involve, in the end, it is your ideas, requirements and specifications ...
2. Playing in a natural environment: an exciting experience! ...: (Natural Playgrounds); ... Forest high-wire parks, adventure parks or outdoor theme parks. What is Nature Play? What it says: playing outdoors, preferably in a natural environment. Climbing trees. Building huts. Playing near ...
3. Integrated Concept for memorable all-inclusive leisure experience: (News); ... customer wants,” adds Mr Tennant. Active Game Fun For All Age Groups In the current age of digital entertainment, one of IOACs’ key objectives is to get the younger generations interest in playing ...
4. Discover the longest zipline and integrated Ropes Course in Ireland: (News); ... All Age Groups In the current age of digital entertainment, one of Castlecomer Discovery Park’s key objectives is to get the younger generations interest in playing outdoors and become more physically ...
5. Give childhood back to children: (Blog UK); If we want our offspring to have happy, productive and moral lives, we must allow more time for play, not less.The most important skills that children everywhere must learn in order to live happy, ...
6. Want to take a more balanced approach to risk?: (Blog UK); Here’s the tool you have been waiting for. Today marks a new phase in the move to a more balanced, thoughtful approach to risk management risk in children’s play and learning, with the launch of a short, ...
7. Risky Play: Why Children Love It: (Blog UK); Fear, you would think, is a negative experience, to be avoided whenever possible. Yet, as everyone who has a child or once was one knows, children love to play in risky ways—ways that combine the joy ...
8. Children prefer to play outdoors: (Blog UK); Children would rather be playing outdoors than watching television, but parents' concerns keep them indoors, a survey suggests. "Parents and carers feel that it's beneficial for children to take ris ...
9. 10 ways to get your kids out in nature: (Blog UK); According to Richard Louv, 2008 Audubon Medal Recipient and author of Last Child in the Woods, kids today are becoming more and more removed from nature, at the expense of their own psychological and ...
10. Real Adventure Playgrounds: (Blog UK); What are junk and adventure playgrounds? Adventure playgrounds are in bold contrast to the modern playgrounds you’ll see around Ireland today which are planned and built according to minimum safety ...
11. Where The Wild Things Play: (Blog UK); There are only a handful of these "wild playgrounds" in the country. They embrace the theory that free, unstructured play is vital for children and offer an antidote to the hurried lifestyles, digital ...
12. Let ‘Em Out!: (Blog UK); ... their school days playing outdoors, no matter the weather. With no explicit math or literacy taught until first grade, the Swiss have no set goals for kindergartners beyond a few measurements, like using ...
13. Risky play and skinned knees are key to healthy children: (Blog UK); Here’s what kids at play have always liked to do: Race, climb, wrestle, hang, throw, balance, fence with sticks, jump from heights and gravitate toward sharp objects. Ideally, while escaping the watchful ...
14. 50 things to do before you're 11¾: (Blog UK); Inspiring ways for parents to help their children enjoy the best of the great outdoors and reconnect with nature. Show nature you care by getting outside and involved. Fly a kite or explore a cave, ...
15. Skywalker Develops Integrated Concept for Next Generation High Ropes: (News); ... is to get the younger generations interest in playing outdoors and become more physically active. In this context, Skywalker B.V. have developed an “interactive” solution that combines fun games and opportunities ...
16. AvaTarZ Nature Park Tackles “Nature Deficit Disorder” in Youngsters: (News); ... of their pastime playing outdoors. However, things have changed dramatically within one generation: TV, computers, game consoles, smartphones and legions of electronic media now provide what youngsters ...
17. Our challenging productrange fits your adventurous needs!: (English (UK)); ... at "dangerous" activities, our thrill productline is your thing. These thrill products can be part of a complete adventure solution with ropes course, but can also be run as a single operation. thrill4 Playin ...
18. Disclaimer & Privacy: (About Skywalker); ... than an occasional basis in any form whatsoever, including integrating it into networks, displaying it on several monitors or publishing it otherwise, after adaptation or not. The processing of the data ...
19. Proven strategies. Successful projects. Happy Kids!: (Natural Playgrounds); ... and co-operation. All the time. And when it comes to playing there are no better experts available than the children themselves. Working group Our first step is normally the establishment of a working ...
20. Climbing parks for children. Excitement and fascination.: (Natural Playgrounds); Basically, there is not much difference between the design of our activity courses for children and our courses for adults. However, we have lowered the overall difficulty levels according to the smaller ...
21. Active Forest builds exciting new outdoor climbing park in Belgium: (News); ... Design and construction of a playground including playing equipment Designs and construction of a 40 ft adventure tower also featuring a climbing wall Design and construction of a climbing park D ...
22. Playing in the treetops ...: (Blog UK); Aerial park impresses. A new Treetop Adventure Park offers the intrepid the chance to swing, climb, balance and zip through the woods. There is something reassuring about a system that keeps you protected ...
23. The Land: (Blog UK); The Land is a forthcoming documentary film about the nature of play, risk and hazard. Set in The Land, a Welsh "adventure” playground. At The Land children climb trees, light fires and use hammers ...
24. Finally! A safety suit to protect children: (Blog UK); A safety suit that will protect your child from bumps and bruises has finally been created. But before parents rush out to buy one, this eye-catching outfit is actually part the campaign against 'cotton ...
25. Natural-terrain schoolyards reduce children’s stress: (Blog UK); Playing in schoolyards that feature natural habitats and trees and not just asphalt and recreation equipment reduces children’s stress and inattention. Schools are where children spend a major part ...
26. Outdoor Education: Children develop sensory integration skills: (Blog UK); The idea was to target the source of children's sensory integration problems, not react to them. Playing and moving outdoors is critical to a child's development. Simply playing in the mud and catchi ...
27. Outdoor Experiences Help Develop Leadership Skills: (Blog UK); It turns out that girls who spend time outdoors regularly surpass their peers who spend less time outdoors in environmental stewardship, readily seek more challenges and are better problem-solvers – ...
28. Kids need outdoor play: (Blog UK); As children gear up to participate in sports leagues and camps this summer, experts say it's important to ensure time is also devoted for youngsters to enjoy less structured outdoor, activeplay. We ...
29. Why kids who play outside develop better life skills: (Blog UK); WHAT does it take to get kids away from their screens and outside playing in their backyards? For many parents and educators this is becoming more and more difficult to achieve with the younger generations ...
30. Dialing Into the Outdoors Through Mobile Game Apps: (Blog UK); "I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are." - Paul, fourth grader. Gamers gotta game. It might seem like an awkward marriage, but one professor thinks it's one ...
31. Let Kids Run Wild in the Woods: (Blog UK); What if everybody picked a flower? Maybe they’d care more about nature. Taking home small souvenirs of the woods is just the beginning of things kids can’t do in nature. In many parks and other public ...
32. What does a tree house mean to children?: (Blog UK); ... riety of birds. Finally, it creates a nook for indulging in one's favourite hobbies - playing a game, reading a book, or simply running up and down. source.. ...
33. Need to get more kids into nature?: (Blog UK); Need to get more kids into nature to have a good time and have exercise as well? Need to get more kids into nature to have a good time and have exercise as well?
34. What children fear most is…nature: (Blog UK); Being deprived of natural environments, children do not receive new stimuli. The number of children who are disoriented, lost and uncomfortable when in contact with outdoor spaces, fields, and trees is ...
35. Importance of outdoor activities for your kids health: (Blog UK); ... increasing, so it is important to encourage children to do regular exercise, ideally on a daily basis. Also the long time spent by children indoors while playing computer games or watching television may ...
36. Naturepark plans new outdoor activity course: (Blog UK); ... of their pastime playing outdoors. However, things have changed dramatically within one generation: TV, computers, game consoles, smartphones and legions of electronic media now provide what youngsters ...
37. No kidding, Nature Deficit Disorder is real: (Blog UK); Interaction with nature reduces symptoms of ADD in school aged children. When we do succeed in tearing our children away from the screens, we tend to shepherd them toward structured outdoor play like soccer ...
38. Do kids really need nature?: (Blog UK); Many children and youth are experiencing an absence of direct experience with nature. Children are experiencing an absence of direct engagement with nature, including less free and unstructured outdoor ...
39. Sitting is the new smoking: (Blog UK); Engagement with nature can have a dramatic impact on stress and happiness. Depression, obesity, and behavioral problems are caused by lack of outdoor activity, claim a growing movement of academics and ...
40. Kids books spread wildlife message: (Blog UK); New educational books help fight the nature deficit disorder. The flowers are blooming, the days are growing longer and temperatures are creeping up. All of which means it’s a great time to get outside ...
41. AvaTarZ invests in education of hildren and young adults: (Blog UK); AvaTarZ Nature Park in Netherlands Tackles “Nature-Deficit Disorder”. Bringing children back in contact with nature at an early age is one of the core objectives of the operators of AvaTarZ Nature Park ...
42. Gaming and Social Media integration into High Ropes Courses gets kids active: (Blog UK); Skywalker develops new incentives to get kids active in nature. Now it's official: One in four children in Europe is now overweight or obese. The reasons for this are manifold, and, by no means, undisputed: ...
43. Check out the new Low Ropes we recently installed!: (Blog UK); New Low Ropes to get the kids outdoors! The low ropes and kids challenge courses consist of a series of real and imaginary obstacles designed to challenge groups and individuals to work together to accomplish ...
44. Signs of Nature-Deficit Disorder - even in rural Ireland: (Blog UK); Parents and teachers’ concerns about health and safety have disconnected children from their land. WHEN THE term “nature deficit disorder” was first coined by writer Richard Louv in 2005, it sounded laughable. ...
45. Ski Area Announces All-Season Zip Line Park: (Blog UK); ... give you the thrill of playing on a giant, floating playground. It's like climbing trees and swinging on ropes just like when you were a kid, but on a far bigger scale and creative environment, and wi ...
46. How to overcome our 'nature deficit': (Blog UK); Kids aren’t the only ones who walk the earth while feeling disconnected to it. Adults are suffering from nature-deficit, too. And it’s not only bad for human beings; it’s bad for our habitat. That’s the ...
47. Recent developments regarding Forest Schools: (Blog UK); ... s of any age through positive outdoor experiences. A picture of children in a Forest Schools session playing Kazoo's they have made out of natrul materialBy participating in engaging, motivating and achieva ...
48. Woodland play areas provide relief from ‘nature deficit disorder’: (Blog UK); Kids just don't play outside anymore. Addressing what has been coined “nature deficit disorder,” nature centers have carved out spaces specifically reserved to let children do what children will do: play.At ...
49. Benefits of Nature to Children: (Blog UK); ... did a number of researches about children who do not spend time playing outdoors and children who do not have any connection with nature can develop behavioral changes, obesity, and stunted academic and developme ...
50. Nature Deficit Disorder: a threat to our society: (Blog UK); Due to nature deficit disorder our youth is capitulated of their contact with nature. The root cause of nature deficit disorder is that parents prefer to keep their children indoors in order to keep them ...