We love to go geocaching with our family. For those that don’t know, geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches,” at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world. […]
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Outdoor learning challenges have recently become very popular on social media: “100 Days Outdoors Challenge”, “30 Days Wild Challenge”. When I was a child, playing outdoors was not a challenge though, it was just the way we played. Sunny days, rainy days, cold days, snowy days … we just played outside. Disclosure: This post contains
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Our technology crazed kids on average spend less than one hour outside. Most parents would agree that their children would rather enjoy screen time than enjoying the outdoors. Babies as young as six months know how to swipe to view pictures on their parents’ cell phone. While technology has created innovative advancements in education, research,
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Having moved from Ireland to Portugal we have not only had to adapt to the obvious changes (new language, culture and of course the weather) but also to an entirely new outdoor world. Our family outings have led to many fascinating outdoor learning adventures. RELATED POST: Outdoor Learning and Play at Korean Sports Day Outdoor Learning:
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Spring foraging is top of our list of things to do with the kids now that spring has well and truly reached our little corner of South West France. You would think living deep in the countryside would be peaceful, but on a recent walk around our village I couldn’t help but observe how noisy it was
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