Exploring Nature with Your Baby: Flowers, plants, and animals provide your little one with rich learning experiences



Parks, zoos, and gardens all offer many opportunities for children to explore plants, animals, weather, colors, sights, and sounds. This article suggests how parents could help their children enjoy rich learning experiences by safely exploring the outdoors.

From the first hour of life, when a baby stares into the eyes of his new parents, he is learning all about this brave new world. Babies try to make sense of what they see, touch, taste, grab, hear, hold, and squeeze. Think of a baby clutching a hunk of ripe banana, slowly squeezing it, and watching in wonder as the yellow, creamy fruit slithers between his fingers. See Exploring Nature with Your Baby»

Exploring Nature with Your Baby: Flowers, plants, and animals provide your little one with rich learning experiences. Sterling Honig, Alice. Scholastic. 2009. English.

Last Reviewed: February 2010