Provide art materials for children to draw pictures of themselves plaing outside in nature.

Optional: Take them outside with beach towels and books and allow them the relaxing experience of lying in the grass and reading.

Ask, "What are the reasons to walk and play outside sometimes instead of always inside?" (Lead them to the researched benefits below. Older students may conduct research to find the benefits of being in nature.)

• Makes you healthier
• Makes you happier
• Helps you sleep
• Taking care of nature keeps us alive because nature feeds us and helps us breathe.

Nature provides everything we need from relaxation and wonder to food to housing materials to the weather that impacts our days. Humans need to interact with nature and feel joy. Instead, we stay inside and lose respect for nature. Human separation from nature has created things like pollution, waste, not recycling, and single-use plastic that are hurting nature. People are increasingly disconnected from nature and care less about taking care of it. 

Talk about what can we do to make a difference.

• We can play outside more -- alone and with others. We can use our imaginations to enjoy nature together. 
• Some nature centers are building mud kitchens outdoors that use only natural utensils -- plates cut out of wood, sticks as tools and utensils, chairs and tables out of wood and rocks.
• We can plant trees and native flowers.
• We can make butterfly and bee garden.
• We can make a birdfeeder from recycled materials.