We are a team of educators, innovators and educational professionals. We have many years of experience in working with children and we always strive to develop and inform ourselves in order to be of maximum benefit to both children and their parents. Play ana Nature is a project inspired, first and foremost, by children and created as part of the expanding activity of the Cooperative Academy. Inspired and tailored to their need for free play that stimulates the development of their social skills, emotional development, logical thinking, creativity and imagination, language skills and knowledge of the world around them. __________________________________________________________________________________ Our mission There is less and less talk of outdoor play nowadays. At the forefront are academic knowledge as well as children's knowledge of technology. We live in a world where the digital takes precedence over the sensory. Every day, children spend hours in front of computers and at the touch of a button they can get the information they need. But is the ready information always appropriate and does it provide the necessary information for the development of the children? A Cambridge University study shows the extent to which children are aware of their environment. Kids as young as 8 are shown images of various animals and plants and other Pokémon animals (in 1995, Pokemon started out as a video game and later expanded throughout the industry - movies, toys, cards, and more). 53% / 100% of children manage to name the animals and plants shown to them, but more than 78% / 100% manage to name all Pokémon cards by name. Scary statistics right. After studies and observations, and after consulting the opinions and experiences of parents, we came to the conclusion that infants should spend more time in nature because the farther they are from it, the greater the chance for children to missed important milestones of its development is increasing.