How To Get Kids Offline, Outdoors and Connecting with Nature: 200+ Creative activities to encourage self-esteem, mindfulness and wellbeing

Bonnie Thomas

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

ISBN: 978-1-84905-968-8

£15.99

269pp

As autumn approaches, with leaves crunching and nature's colours painting the streets, parks and hillsides around us, this book arrived to review as a real treat.

I loved the title, and then reading on the purpose of the book: a handbook to help parents and caregivers engage youth in the natural world, and to help and encourage social work professionals incorporate nature-based interventions in treatment goals.

So does it work? Well, yes and no.

A big positive is indeed the large number of well described nature-based activities. In here are old favourites and new ideas: heart stones, animal totem shrines, earth looms, dream catchers, wishing wands, fairy houses, picnics and puddle tracing. As a collection of well described activities anyone can use for a wide range of purposes, it is great.