{"id":376,"date":"2013-10-18T18:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T18:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/?p=376"},"modified":"2014-03-14T19:09:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:09:30","slug":"nature-play-in-the-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/nature-play-in-the-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature Play in the Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-377 aligncenter\" alt=\"winfield children's house rocks\" src=\"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rock-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"515\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The toddler house and children&#8217;s house playgrounds at Winfield Children&#8217;s House offer a mixture of natural spaces to play and traditional playground equipment. Offering children experiences to play <strong>in<\/strong> and <strong>with<\/strong> nature is a crucial part of helping a child develop understanding and caring for the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Are you looking for resources to develop a safe, natural playspace at home? Our toddler teacher, Leslie, discovered a great downloadable handbook from from the <a title=\"Green Hearts Inc\" href=\"www.greenheartsinc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Green Hearts Institute for Nature in Childhood<\/a>. It&#8217;s called &#8220;<a title=\"parent's guide to nature play\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenheartsinc.org\/Parents__Guide.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Parent&#8217;s Guide to Nature Play<\/a>.&#8221; It reviews why nature play matters and offers tips on setting up an outdoor playspace to maximize your child&#8217;s experience with nature. It has a handy list of outdoor plants that are safe to have around curious young children. We hope you check it out and share what works with us!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The toddler house and children&#8217;s house playgrounds at Winfield Children&#8217;s House offer a mixture of natural spaces to play and traditional playground equipment. Offering children experiences to play in and with nature is a crucial part of helping a child develop understanding and caring for the environment. Are you looking for resources to develop a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[18,52,73,19,54,48,12,100,75,61,69],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-childrens-corner","category-montessori-parents","tag-family","tag-fun","tag-games","tag-gardening","tag-home","tag-idea","tag-montessori","tag-nature","tag-outdoors","tag-parent","tag-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}