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Dream BiG! Be KiND! Adventure often!

Resources to keep you THiNKing OUTSiDE all month long.

Trail Markings: A Guide to Safe Navigation

As an avid hiker, you know how important it is to either stay on a marked trail or mark your own trail to ensure a safe trip. Whether you're exploring new terrain or venturing into the wilderness, leaving trail markers in easy to find locations can saving your life.

Crystal Wren

04.05.2024

Outdoor Education

10 Fun Outdoor Activities for Kids

We all use social skills in our daily lives, including kids. Therefore, social skills should be practiced and strengthened everywhere, whether inside or outside the classroom. Outdoor activities for kids are a fantastic way to help build social skills.

Crystal Wren

04.05.2024

Outdoor Play

Your kids would say “Straight Fire!”

Your kids will be saying that March's THiNK OUTSiDE box is “straight fire” – something that is “really good, amazing, crazy (in a good way).” Building a fire is an important life skill but one that comes with a lot of responsibility to keep people safe and to prevent wildfires. Let’s start now with a few basics.

Crystal Wren

01.03.2024

Outdoor Education

8 Parenting Tips to Raise Wonderful Kids

Every parent wants to raise their children to be kind, caring, and productive members of society. And once the parenting journey begins, most parents start wondering if there are proven parenting tips out there to help them.

Crystal Wren

01.02.2024

Education

Seeking OUTSiDER Stories

We'd love to spotlight some of the fun things you and your family are doing in the outdoors!

Crystal Wren

01.01.2024

Outdoor Play

Outdoor Winter Activities for Kids

During the winter months, many people have been raised to huddle inside and pursue indoor activities. However, imagine that this preconceived notion about how to act during the colder months was false. Instead of missing out on seasonal fun, consider some fun winter activities for kids outside.

Crystal Wren

30.11.2023

Outdoor Play

3 Benefits of Outdoor Play for Children

It’s no surprise why kids aren't playing as much outside as in previous decades. Today, most families have multiple devices in their homes. Televisions, tablets, phones, video game consoles, and laptops are standard fare—and they’ve taken over what could be valuable outdoor time.

Crystal Wren

01.09.2023

Outdoor Benefits

A Happy Camping Adventure

What better way to practice the shelter building and survival skills you learned in February's THiNK OUTSiDE Shelter box than to take a family camping trip?

Crystal Wren

01.02.2023

Outdoor Education

THiNK OUTSiDE Outdoor Adventure Blog

Dream BiG! Be KiND! Adventure often!

Resources to keep you THiNKing OUTSiDE all month long.

Trail Markings: A Guide to Safe Navigation

10 Fun Outdoor Activities for Kids

Your kids would say “Straight Fire!”

8 Parenting Tips to Raise Wonderful Kids

Seeking OUTSiDER Stories

Outdoor Winter Activities for Kids

3 Benefits of Outdoor Play for Children

A Happy Camping Adventure

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