Links
Cultivating Community: Principles and Practices for Community Gardening as a Community-Building Tool by Karen Payne and Deborah Fryman
Youth Giving Curriculum by Karen Payne and Sondra Shaw-Hardy
Facilitators’ Manual for Youth Giving Curriculum
Download pdf
Children and Nature Network
This is the national network that was started by Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.
Additional links for ideas, research and resources:
Alliance for Childhood www.allianceforchildhood.net/
Childhood Matters radio show on KISS FM 98.1 www.childhoodmatters.org
Children in Nature Collaborative (San Francisco Bay Area) www.cincbayarea.org
Children, Nature and You www.childrennatureandyou.org
Children, Youth and Environments www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/
Empowered by Play: Helping families and teachers protect and promote imaginative play by Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin http://www.empoweredbyplay.org
Every Child has the Right www.persil.com/scrapbook/Default.aspx
Hooked on Nature www.hookedonnature.org
National Institute for Play www.nifplay.org/
Youth Enrichment Strategies www.yesfamilies.org
Zach Pine Nature Sculpture homepage.mac.com/zpine/index.html
Wild Zones at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wild-Zones/149151002883
Video and audio links:
http://www.childrennatureandyou.org/videolinks.html
"Let the wild rumpus begin!"
Did you ever feel your heart leap at that clarion call in Maurice Sendak's
Where the Wild Things Are?
"Let the wild rumpus start!"
Yes, please!
