Skogsmulle is a Swedish early years pedagogy, based on a fictional forest creature of that name and designed to encourage young children to experience, explore and respect nature.
Skogsmulle (‘forest creature’) wears a little green hat and a big smile and accompanies children in the woods, where he sings with them, plays with them and tells them stories about nature.
He is the steward of nature and has captured the hearts and minds of thousands of children in Sweden and around the world.
The approach was developed in the 1950s by Gösta Frohm, while working for Sweden’s Association for Promotion of Outdoor Life. Skogsmulle, or Mulle – who was born on a farm in Botkyrka, Sweden – is central to the approach and he is usually presented to children in the form of a puppet, or leaders dress up as the character.
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