Using Nature to Facilitate Children's Creative Expression: An on-demand workshop

Imagine a workshop focused on using nature to facilitate process art and children’s creative expression…and all without blowing your entire professional development budget.

The Using Nature to Facilitate Children's Creative Expression On-Demand Workshop is here!

Art and creative expression are vital components of an early childhood classroom. Nature-based education is rich with opportunities to support children’s individual creative expression. These opportunities include using nature for inspiration, as a tool, and as a studio space.

Using Nature to Facilitate Children's Creative Expression will help your team dig deep into their teaching to support children in expressing themselves creatively.  Specifically, the workshop will address these topic areas:

• Why art matters: All too often art gets pushed aside in education. This section of the workshop will address the importance of art and creative expression in children’s development.

• Creating WITH nature: In nature-based education we strive for children to learn with nature. The same is true with art and the result emphasizes process over product art. 

• Nature as a space, tool, & inspiration for creating:  Discover the many roles nature plays in young children’s creative expression. The natural world can be a studio or the creative medium itself. And of course nature can inspire children to imagine and create. This workshop provides examples specific to nature-based early childhood education.

When you purchase this workshop you’ll receive a downloadable Facilitator’s Guide (PDF) including... 

• A video link so you can watch the in-service workshop at a time that works best for your team

• Prompts to encourage discussions among your team about using nature to facilitate children’s process art and creative expression

• Printable worksheets to conduct an inventory of materials in your Indoor and Outdoor classrooms to support the seven different types of art

• Certificate of completion so you can document and get credit for the time spent on this professional learning

Download Using Nature to Facilitate Children's Creative Expression now and witness the transformation in your teaching and the impact that has on children as they learn in and with the natural world.

This on-demand workshop is perfect for educators looking for team development, as a teaching tool in pre-service education, or for individual professional learning. 

Want to level up this workshop?

Schedule a Live Q&A call with Rachel! A Q&A session with Rachel is an especially high value addition if you are using these courses for a team of educators. You and your team can expect open discussion to address questions, concerns, and thoughts specific to YOUR program. If you’re interested in scheduling, check page 3 of the Facilitator’s Guide for a link to schedule and pay for a 30-minute or 1-hour call.