Rooted In Play Outdoor Learning

Rooted In Play Outdoor Learning Nature-based, parent-child outdoor enrichment for children ages 6 months–8 years.

Offerings include weekly classes, seasonal events, drop-ins & outdoor birthday parties building confidence, creativity, resilience & connection through hands-on play.

That’s a wrap, summer ☀️For our last week in Nature Explorers this season, we focused on capturing our sense of wonder a...
08/13/2026

That’s a wrap, summer ☀️

For our last week in Nature Explorers this season, we focused on capturing our sense of wonder and joy! Bubbles, boxes, sticks, ribbons and forest putty helped us discover that wonder can be found in the simplest things when we slow down, get curious, and let ourselves play.

It was the best way to wrap up our summer together.
Thank you to all of our Nature Explorers families for making this season so special. 💛

If you missed us this summer, fall programs start next month 🍂🥳 Nature Explorers returns with more opportunities for open-ended play, outdoor exploration, and connection. I’d love to have you join us for the next season!

One of my very favorite quotes! 💛📝
07/29/2026

One of my very favorite quotes! 💛📝

What a colorful and musical week in Nature Explorers! 🎶🌈For week 2 of our Nature Explorers summer series, we tuned in to...
07/25/2026

What a colorful and musical week in Nature Explorers! 🎶🌈

For week 2 of our Nature Explorers summer series, we tuned in to the sounds all around us during a nature sound scavenger hunt before discovering that music can be made almost anywhere. Then, using everyday objects and treasures from nature, we experimented, collaborated, and created our own unique sounds and instruments.

Later in the week, we became color collectors, searching for vibrant hues all around our outdoor space. Then, we rubbed, mashed and squished our found treasures (berries, carrots, purple cabbage) to extract their natural pigments to use as paint. We also experimented with wood mallets and fresh blooms, to create our own nature prints to take home.

✨ Couldn’t join us this summer? Fall programs are open for enrollment and filling up—grab your spot now and meet us outside in September for even more fun!

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07/24/2026

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🍂 Fall is in our future, and registration is officially open!This next season, Rooted In Play is offering four ways for ...
07/14/2026

🍂 Fall is in our future, and registration is officially open!

This next season, Rooted In Play is offering four ways for children to explore, create, connect, and discover outdoors:

🍁 Nature Explorers — building the skill of Focus through nature play and adventure
👶 Nature Babies — nurturing connection through sensory experiences and shared exploration
🎨 Wild Art Lab — growing the Creative Habit of Experimentation through process-based art
📚 Beyond the Page Book Club — bringing stories to life through nature, play, and imagination

Each program is thoughtfully designed to meet children where they are and invite them into meaningful moments of curiosity and wonder.

I can’t wait to spend another season outside learning and playing together!

✨ Registration is open — find all the details through the link in my bio!

Week one of Nature Explorers is in the books, and we kicked off our summer sensory adventures with some of our favorite ...
07/11/2026

Week one of Nature Explorers is in the books, and we kicked off our summer sensory adventures with some of our favorite materials! 🤎💦

For day one, we explored our sense of touch and tried to figure out our “mud mindsets”—a set of various ways that each person might approach mud play. Some of us jumped right in, while others chose a scoop, a tool, or a little more time to observe. We practiced tuning into our unique “sensory cups” and finding ways to explore that felt good to us.

Then for day two, we followed our noses through the woods, in search of some hidden bundles of fragrant herbs and flowers before creating our own nature perfumes. 🌸

Summer is just getting started here, and there’s still time to join us for more outdoor sensory exploration, messy play, and nature-based discovery!

✨ Nature Explorers is designed for ages 1.5–8 with a caregiver. Come explore with us!

Our tiniest explorers had the sweetest start to summer! ☀️In week one of Summer Nature Babies, we explored bubbles and t...
07/11/2026

Our tiniest explorers had the sweetest start to summer! ☀️

In week one of Summer Nature Babies, we explored bubbles and taste-safe frozen chalk—two simple invitations that encouraged big discoveries. From watching bubbles float and pop to feeling the cool, colorful chalk melt and transform, our little ones practiced observing, reaching, experimenting, and exploring through their senses. 🫧🎨

Nature Babies is all about slowing down, following your baby’s curiosity, and discovering the wonder of the natural world together.

There’s still time to join us this summer for more gentle sensory play, outdoor exploration, and connection with your little one. 🌿

✨ Nature Babies is designed for ages 6–24 months with a caregiver.

☀️ SUMMER IS FOR MESSY PLAY! ☀️Looking for simple ways to spend your summer outdoors? Our summer series classes are now ...
06/02/2026

☀️ SUMMER IS FOR MESSY PLAY! ☀️

Looking for simple ways to spend your summer outdoors? Our summer series classes are now enrolling in Cottonwood Heights!

🌿 Nature Explorers: Sensory Summer (ages 1.5–8 years)
Mix, create, build, splash, and experiment through hands-on outdoor adventures! This summer, our curriculum is designed to help each child strengthen and balance their senses in the most stimulating and soothing classroom of all—the great outdoors. We’ll make concoctions, create nature art, explore simple machines, blow giant bubbles, tackle obstacle courses, and enjoy plenty of muddy fun.

When: Wed/Fri; 10:00-11:30 am
Who: Parent & Child

👶 Nature Babies: Little Scientists (ages 6–24 months)
Explore bubbles, water, ice, mud, natural pigments, sensory play, storytime, and more alongside your little one. Designed especially for babies and young toddlers, and supports early science concepts, communication, curiosity, and connection through gentle outdoor play.

When: Tue/Thu; 10:00-11:00 am
Who: Parent & Child

✨ Child-led
✨ Outdoor learning
✨ Sensory-rich experiences
✨ No prior experience needed
✨ Play your way—and dress for mess!

📍 Cottonwood Heights
📅 July 2026

Whether you have a baby who loves to splash on repeat, or an older child who loves to create and explore, I’d love to spend part of the summer with your family!

🌱 Learn more and enroll:
www.rootedinplaylearning.com

Tag a friend who might love a summer full of mud, bubbles, creativity, and outdoor play! 💚

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05/15/2026

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Have you heard of the 3 B’s of creativity? 🧠✨Breaking, blending, and bending—basically all the things kids naturally do ...
04/28/2026

Have you heard of the 3 B’s of creativity? 🧠✨

Breaking, blending, and bending—basically all the things kids naturally do when we let them just play. (This intriguing framework comes from the book, The Runaway Species by David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt.)

Once you start noticing it, you see it everywhere—taking things apart, mixing random materials together, molding things into something totally new.

We’ve been exploring each of the 3 B’s in Nature Explorers this spring, and honestly… the ideas the kids come up with are the best part. 💛

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