According to Sanford Health, five of the benefits of playing outdoors are, [it]
1. Builds physically healthier children.
2. Contributes to cognitive and social/emotional health.
3. Improves sensory skills
4. Increases attention span
5. Happiness and better immunity.
There’s a lot of great data-driven benefits to outdoor playing, so we spend as much time as we can in nature.
We headed out to the backyard and the park today. It’s a little cooler than I had imagined, but that didn’t deter us too much. Jude climbed. He did some swinging. He kicked a soccer ball. And then, he just played around in the backyard for a while. Your outdoor play doesn’t have to be fancy to be beneficial!
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