Nature and Creative Expression: An on-demand workshop
An on-demand workshop for your next professional development day! A pre-recorded video, facilitator’s guide, and discussion prompts are included.
Goal: To identify ways to facilitate young children’s experiences creating WITH nature.
Duration: 1-2 hours (1 hour video runtime; discussion & activities can be as short or as long as you'd like)
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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 Nature & 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.
Nature & 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
Enroll now in Nature & Creative Expression 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.
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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.
Meet your instructor
Rachel A. Larimore, Ph.D., is an educator, consultant, speaker, researcher, and author. Her work focuses on the intentional integration of nature to support young children’s holistic development by learning with nature to expand their worlds and live rich, full lives. She has written multiple books including Establishing a Nature-Based Preschool, Preschool Beyond Walls: Blending Early Childhood Education and Nature-Based Learning, and Evaluating Nature: Evaluating Natureness: Measuring the Quality of Nature-based Classrooms in Pre-k Through 3rd Grade. Prior to founding Samara, she spent more than a decade starting and directing one of the first nature-based preschools in the United States. She also serves on the advisory board of the Natural Start Alliance, a professional association supporting nature-based educators.