Contact with nature has a direct positive effect on brain development. We were created to work amid nature, in real contact with nature, because we are a part of it. In all of us, nature encourages a state of balance and calm. It shows us the beauty of life in all its stages and stimulates our senses in a natural rhythm.

The lives of modern families have changed in the past two decades, due to the use of technology. Our kids prefer to spend more time in front of a screen such as a TV, computer, tablet or phone than spend time outside with nature. Therefore, their brains develop differently than how they are created, with direct negative effects on learning, skills, and behaviour. Numerous recent studies support the importance of children's contact with natural environment, starting in early years of life.

The Advantages Of Contact With Nature

Development Of Cognitive Skills And Creativity

Daily exposure to natural, increases children's ability to concentrate and improves cognitive skills. During outdoor activities, children engage in more creative methods of play. Through improvisation, experimentation and creation, without restrictions and limitations of playing in enclosed spaces. In nature, children's senses and imagination are stimulated by new objects and materials, by the elements of nature that offer a multitude of possibilities for exploration and use.

With a wide variety of resources available, outdoor play options are limitless, ideas and solutions more unique. Playing in nature promotes creative skills, problem solving and development of spontaneity in general.

Children Become More Sociable

When children go out to play in nature, they have many opportunities to interact with other playmates. In nature, they can connect more easily with others, help each other, share their learning and solve problems together.

Children often collaborate during outdoor play, create and improvise together, and are more likely to make friends. They develop empathic and understanding skills to others. Playing and moving in nature with other children helps them to explore, to act freely and responsibly at the same time.

Increasing Self-Confidence

Connecting with nature is an opportunity for children to explore the real world, test their limits and develop their autonomy.

Nature can act as an excellent tool for developing self-confidence. Children collaborate, acquire new skills, and learn to solve problems independently, and take risks. As a result, they gain a greater degree of self-knowledge, courage and independence.

Here are some toys that help children connect with nature:

1.TENDERLEAF GARDEN WHEELBARROW SET

Tenderleaf Garden Wheelbarrow Set is a wonderful toy to cultivate a love for gardening and nature. They can spend hours with all its interactive features in fun pretend play galore! This set introduces children to growing flowers, vegetables and plants.

It is a playful way to enrich a child's perception of effort and concentration. This wooden wheelbarrow toy will develop a child's motor skills, expand his intellectual capacities, and help him to be autonomous. Ideal for improving both motor and cognitive skill, allows the child to discover an educational environment and interact with it arousing creative ideas.

2. TENDERLEAF FOREST TRAIL KIT

Tenderleaf Forest Trail Kit provides a perceptual experience through nature. Keep your children in touch with nature, give them more space to have fun, play and make discoveries that only the forest can offer.

You will see how spontaneous enthusiasm will manifest in the child, which you can positively direct into the mainstream of knowledge about forest. There is always something exciting and interesting going on in nature. Forest Trail Kit is permeated with joy, which will expand his circle of interests as his curiosity will be awakened!

3.QTOYS HANGING BEE HOUSE

Qtoys Hanging Bee House provides a safe place for bees, letting them come and go freely. Watching different bees visiting the flowers will be so fun. Ideal for children who love nature and bees. It will inspire them to care about and love wildlife.

4. QTOYS COCONUT SAND SCOOP

Qtoys Coconut Sand Scoop allows children to live days of adventures, giving them the freedom to explore and create. It is the perfect tool for developing the sense of sand's texture as well as fine motor skills.

5. QTOYS BAMBOO WATER MILL

Qtoys Bamboo Water Mill is fun water play with an educational component! It will give children an interactive activity they can enjoy outdoors. This wooden water mill toy will introduce kids to mechanics. A great toy for children of all the ages designed to improve motor skills and hand-to-eye coordination.

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