Nature Play Spaces Elements - Building Activities

Building encourages basic engineering skills, and also encourages creativity and imagination. Children will often use loose, natural materials that will allow them to build a connection with the items in their surrounding natural environment.

Group of kids building a planter around a tree

Building a planter around a tree

Kids playing with loose tree branches and boards

Loose parts are limited only to the imagination

Branches to build a doorway

Branches can be used to build structures

For made from tree branches

Fort made of tree branches