Imagine a place where your love of the outdoors is cultivated and nurtured! Where you smell of sunscreen and beads of sweat have collected on your forehead. Your shoes contain traces of sand and your knees bare healing scrapes from days before. As you examine your surroundings and your heart beats rapidly at the sight of exciting, engaging and challenging opportunities.
Your senses are fully engaged. You hear birds calling, squirrels chattering and a plane flying overhead in a distance. You smell lilacs, spruce trees and the faint sent of chives. You look down at the metal bucket you are holding its contents give way to a variety of textures you have collected, including baby pinecones, flower petals, cotton, woodchips and basil leaves.
As you continue to scan your surroundings you spy the perfect stump. You are filled with an incredible sense of urgency and hope, as you run toward it. Engaging all the physical ability you can muster, you successfully overturn the stump and instantly, hope is replaced with pride and a sense of accomplishment. For you have found the perfect occupant for your newly constructed bug habitat.
You are a preschooler at Bambinis Playschool. This absolutely wonderful place you are fortunate to spend your days, believes in the importance of outdoor/nature-based education and all the magic that lies within.
