Northeast Iowa Community College
Child Development Center

 

Our Nature Certified Playground is a wonderful place to be! It is a very large space and we are always doing something new! This year, we added a mud kitchen where we can pump our own water on our dirt to make mud!! We then do many things with that mud……pretend to cook it, make designs/sculptures and many other creative things! We also have planter boxes and this year we decided to plant some flowers we have never seen before, learned about them and are excited to see them again each year! We also have a family that donates tons of different kinds of flower seeds for us to try! Our playground had a family of baby bunnies living near our slide hill. We learned many new things about bunnies and how they live and we made a barrier to protect the family from anything dangerous. We were also careful and left the family alone while we were out playing. There is always a learning experience in nature. The creativity we see everyday is astounding. It is so fun seeing and hearing all the things the kids come up with while playing in nature.