An engaging and fun tool to explore the languages of the earth through natural materials and guide them through the four seasons. Workshop in Nature: the 4 Seasons presents 40 workshops to do outdoors together with nursery school children. The workshops foster sensory experiences, curiosity, collaboration and scientific investigations, encouraging innovation and ecology through the creative transformation of materials.

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Nature workshops are not only educational experiences, but they are also transformative experiences that enrich our lives, forever.

THE SERIES

This book is part of the GREEN series: games and books to explore and appreciate nature and build an eco-sustainable future. Workshop in Nature: the 4 Seasons adapts to every context, offering opportunities for learning and creativity in every corner of the natural world.

Alongside Workshop in Nature: the 4 Seasons is the volume I explore nature, created to transform educational experiences into transformative memories, enriching our lives and cultivating a lasting love for the Earth.

STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK:

The volume is divided into four parts, each dedicated to a season in which various experiences to do together with children are collected. For each experience there are:

• Introductory reflections to subsequently delve deeper into what is described in the workshops;
• suggestions for creating alternatives to the proposals;
• skills and competences that arise during the performance of activities;
• the materials necessary to carry out the activities;
• the procedure in detail for each laboratory.

Some activities to do in spring

• Eco-sustainable soap bars
• The flower clock
• Natural brushes
• The bee garden

Some activities to do in summertime

• The herbarium
• Let’s watch the fireflies
• The odor catcher
• Flavored salt

Some activities to do in autumn

• Hunting for seeds
• The leaf notebook
• Leaf lanterns
• The ladybug refuge

Some activities to do in wintertime

• Ice discs
• The solstice wreath
• The snow molds
• Natural masks

Leaf through some pages translated into English to facilitate your evaluation of the product:

THE AUTHOR

Manuela Ruaben is a teacher in Trentino Alto Adige and she lives at the foot of Mount Bondone. She has been a trainer since 2009 and is a scholar and expert in outdoor education. For more than thirty years, she has been sharing her days with children, planning, experimenting and getting excited with them every day.