Nursery World - Nature's way

After the autumn leaf fall, it's an ideal time to explore trees, when children can see their structures clearly, says Helen Bromley This project offers ideas and activities designed to build on children's natural interests and curiosity about the natural world.

This project offers ideas and activities designed to build on children's natural interests and curiosity about the natural world.

Trees form an integral part of our natural environment; they offer us food, materials for building and also a safe home for many animals, as well as stimulating all our senses.

They change with the passing seasons, offering a focus for investigation at any time of year. Many early years settings celebrate the glory of autumn, with its burst of reds and oranges, but trees in winter have their own particular beauty.

With their leaves shed, trees unveil their wonderful structure of thick trunk, strong branches and fragile twigs - features that become all the more glorious on a frosty winter's morning.

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