Outdoor Practitioner Summer 2021
Outdoor Practitioner: free online magazine
The Outdoor Practitioner is our new online magazine, full of articles, ideas and activities to support you to be outdoors with your groups.
Free to download, to keep as a useful resource you can refer back to when you need it, or read online.
Outdoor Hub
All Activities
What's New
Art & Creating
mud, clay & sand
pine cones & conkers
leaves, sticks & petals
weaving & wool
wooden discs
pewter
sun print
inks, dyes & perfume
pebbles
ice & snow
with tools
Bushcraft & Survival
Fire
Knots & Cordage
Curriculum Outdoors
numeracy
literacy
science
Food Outdoors
foraging
campfire cooking
Growing & Gardens
Health & Wellbeing
Inspirations
Outdoor Play
mud kitchen book
mud kitchen case studies
den building
Other outdoor play ideas
Product Information
Nature
Tool use & Traditional Crafts
tool guides
weaving
felting
pewter
hammers
knives
secateurs & saws
palm drills & rotary hand drills
fire
All Health & wellbeing
Connecting to nature
Guide to outdoor clothing
Hand washing
Health & safety outdoors
Health & wellbeing books
Health & wellbeing news
Health & wellbeing videos
Introduction
Mental health & being outdoors
Research, reports: health, wellbeing
Sit spots
Useful websites: health, wellbeing
All Forest School
Benefits of Forest School
Forest School activities
Forest School books
Forest School Day
Forest School guides
Forest School history
Forest School in the news
Forest School principles
Forest School qualifications
Forest School shop
Forest School training
Forest School videos
FS blogs & websites
FS research & reports
Introduction
Key organisations
What is Forest School?
Why Forests & woods?
Please contact us if you would like to contribute an article or share activities in our next issue.
Contact Outdoor Practitioner magazine editor beccy@muddyfaces.co.uk
The Outdoor Practitioner issue 2, summer 2021
Contents
Features
The Natural Play Principles from Professor Jan White
Hand Washing focus
Embedding outdoor play training in Early Childhood courses at Glasgow Clyde College
Activities
Sun prints - bunting & cyanotype prints
How to make a foot operated soap dispenser from Richard Irvine
Nature Chatterbox from the National Trust
Tree ID - the oak
Contributors
Learning Through Landscapes (LtL) - overcoming outdoor learning barriers at Grand-y-Care, Scotland
Council for Learning Outside the Classroom (CLOtC) - 5 top tips for learning outside the classroom
Forest School Association (FSA) - the Forest School Provider programme
National Forest - Creating a Forest for Learning
Thrive Outdoors - supporting Scotland’s children to grow, play & learn outdoors
View online here - Outdoor Practitioner Summer 2021 or free download below.
The Outdoor Practitioner issue 1, spring 2021
Contents
Features
Outdoor Clothing focus
The Breeze Project, Newcastle - impacting young people’s wellbeing through Forest School
Outdoor case study: Milford Pre School, Hampshire
Activities
Fire - how to choose & use a fire steel
Campfire cooking - campfire bread on a stick
Bushcraft knots - clove hitch
Contributors
National Association for Environmental Education (NAEE)
National Trust - 50 things to do before you’re 11 ¾ & Ways to Have a Mini Adventure
Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust
View online here - Outdoor Practitioner Spring 2021 or free download below.
Outdoor Practitioner Spring 2021