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Little Gardeners Nature Stay & Play (under 7s)

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Let your little ones play, explore, dig, create and connect with nature in a safe and stimulating outdoor setting.

This is an outdoor, unstructured, free play session. Rather than running structured activities, we encourage the adults to take a step back, relax, and let the play experts (our children) take the lead. Have a cuppa and chat with like-minded parents or just enjoy being in our peaceful garden sanctuary.

Each week we put out a changing set of resources for free garden-based play, including…

  • magnifying glasses
  • mini gardening tools and watering cans
  • a kids’ raised bed for digging and growing food
  • a dressing up box
  • a mud kitchen
  • wildlife pond
  • loose parts for creative play
  • friendly chickens
  • a story den
  • painting and craft activities

There are always hot drinks for the adults, snacks provided by Organix (and sometimes hot chocolate) for the children in our dry outdoor classroom space.

Dress for the weather and join us rain or shine!

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