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Activity Cards
The 21-card Facilitator Edition, print-ready at 4×6in.
$2943 pages
- 21 cards, facilitator front and reverse
- Four learning objectives per card
- Two-up on US Letter with cut lines
- Regulation goal named before content goal
For educators, programs & caregivers
Curriculum that starts with the nervous system.
Most nature curriculum for young children starts with content: here is a leaf, here is its name. A dysregulated two-year-old cannot identify a leaf — they cannot take turns, follow a two-step instruction, or notice anything at all. Every card and session plan here names its regulation goal before its content goal, because that is the order children actually learn in.
2–8Ages
21Activity cards
8Full session plans
NoneKit required
Printable PDFs · instant download
Preview any of it before you buy.
Each preview is a complete, unedited excerpt — real cards and the full gather sheet, not a table of contents.
Most complete
Educator Bundle
Everything needed to run a season of outdoor sessions.
$39$59First 25 buyers · 59 pages
- All 21 activity cards
- Four complete outdoor session plans
- Gather Your Own Collection sheet
- Six under-five safety rules for collecting
- Age differentiation, 2–3 and 3–5
Coastal · ages 2–8
Four Days by the Tide
A complete four-day barrier island week, start to finish.
$2412 pages
- Four connected days, not four separate lessons
- Two age bands on every activity, 2–4 and 5–8
- Regulation Cue Cheat Sheet for your pocket
- Montessori-aligned, developmental domains tagged
- Written at Hunting Island — runs on any coast
For families
Seasonal Rhythm Companion
A year of unhurried outdoor rhythm, written for home.
$14Family edition
- Season-by-season invitations
- No specialized knowledge needed
- Works in a backyard or a city block
- The gentlest place to begin
Running an inland program and a beach week? The Educator Bundle and Four Days by the Tide work together — one for the woods and the pond, one for the shore. Buy both, or email about a program licence if more than one facilitator will use them.
Why there is nothing to buy from us
Every activity has been written so that no card depends on a proprietary component. Where the curriculum once named a kit, it now names what the thing actually is — a hand lens, a box with a lid a child can open alone, bark and stones and wooden rounds. The included Gather Your Own Collection sheet says where to find each of them, and carries the six safety rules that matter most with children under five: choke sizing, no berries or seeds or nuts, leave living things living, and check the rules of the land you are standing on, because many parks prohibit removing material.
How a session runs
The card opens the door. The child decides what happens next.
Cards are invitations, not scripts. The adult offers an entry point, adds support when it expands participation, observes, and steps back when curiosity is carrying the learning.
01 · Invite
Offer the entry point and let the place do some of the work.
02 · Scaffold
Add support only where it widens who can take part.
03 · Observe
Watch what the child is actually doing, not what the plan expected.
04 · Step back
Withdraw once the child's own questions are driving it.
Free, no email required
Try the approach before you spend anything.
Three printable guides that use the same regulation-first structure as the paid curriculum.
The 5-Minute Outdoor Reset
A short regulation sequence for the moment a child comes apart — indoors or out.
Get the guide →Nature Play Starter Guide
What to do on the first few outings when you have no idea where to start.
Get the guide →Winter Field Guide for Toddlers
Cold-weather outdoor play that stays regulated and stays short.
Get the guide →For programs and multi-site staff
Program License
If more than one facilitator will use this, or you need it across sites, the license covers the whole team and adds the curriculum framework the cards were built from.
$149By inquiry · invoiced
Everything in the Educator Bundle
All 21 cards, four session plans, the gather sheet.
All 21 cards, four session plans, the gather sheet.
The curriculum framework
How the activities map to development, and how to build new ones for your own site.
How the activities map to development, and how to build new ones for your own site.
Glossary and objective mapping
For grant reporting, licensing paperwork, and parent communication.
For grant reporting, licensing paperwork, and parent communication.
Multi-staff rights
Print and use across your program without per-person purchase.
Print and use across your program without per-person purchase.
Park and nature center partnerships
Site-specific units written for your own ecosystem — separate scope, quoted individually.
Site-specific units written for your own ecosystem — separate scope, quoted individually.