Babies and toddlers have an insatiable appetite to explore and move around in their environment. Being outdoors gives them the opportunity to investigate their world with all their senses and their whole bodies.
Feeling the wind or sun on their face; touching the snow or ice; scrabbling in the sand or just listening to the leaves rustling in the wind are all examples of how the outdoors can build up a young child's experiences. But it is often the youngest, least mobile children who miss out on this because of the weather or the logistics involved in getting them from, say, an upstairs room to the garden.
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