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DIY tools and resources to help you get out and take your family, friends and neighbors OUTSIDE.

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Host a Green Play Day.
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For Organizers
Resources you can use to reach parents and to help parents reach you.
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Do you want to make a presentation?
Use these Natural Families Network tools and templates. Spread the Word present to parents, teachers, community leaders and policy makers.
Natural Families Network DIY workshop presentation:
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Where Nature Meets Story
• Family Activities
• Family Stories
NFN Resources: There are a variety of terrific resources available to help inspire, inform and support Nature Clubs for Families with ideas, activities, tips and tools. Link here for access to a sample of such resources —including links to existing Nature Clubs for Families, programs, and products. This list is useful but is not intended to be comprehensive. Send us your suggestions for additions! Download the Resource List [>]

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"If you go with long-term significance, my pick for the top story of not only 2009 but also of the 21st Century is the pandemic of Nature Deficit Disorder, a term so aptly coined by Richard Louv in his best-selling outdoor book, Last Child in the Woods...."
— Bill Schneider, NewWest.Net
“Concerns about long-term consequences—affecting emotional well-being, physical health, learning abilities, environmental consciousness—have spawned a national movement to ‘leave no child inside.’ In recent months, it has been the focus of Capitol Hill hearings, state legislative action, grassroots projects, a U.S. Forest Service initiative to get more children into the woods and a national effort to promote a ‘green hour’ in each day.”
— Washington Post, June 2007
“The movement to reconnect children to the natural world has arisen quickly, spontaneously, and across the usual social, political, and economic dividing lines.”
— Orion magazine, March/April 2007
Testimonial Family Adventures in Nature “I believe family nature clubs help break down barriers to getting out in nature and also get “nature” back on the family calendar – a real challenge in today’s over-scheduled world. If we can help families connect to nature and to each other, we’ve achieved our main goal. ” Janice Swaisgood, Family Adventures in Nature
Find Janice and other nature club leaders and participants on the Nature Clubs for Families forum.

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Head Start Body Start

Head Start Body Start provides resources for the early child care and education communities.

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