Getting Your Bubbas Outdoors – The Benefits

Sunshine/ Vitamin D plays a very important part in our lives without it we can suffer from brittle bones, dementia, depression, heart disease, increased blood pressure and mental illness but what you may not know is how good it is for bubbas, here is some great reasons to get you and your bubbas outdoors-

Stress relief
Strengthens immunity
Sharpens focus
Increases short term memory
Improve health & fitness

The benefits to bubbas is even greater. Nature can provide us with an awesome classroom, teaching about growing plants, fruits and veggies, native animals and insects, seasons, the environment and how to look after it and a greater range of pysical activities can be taught outdoors. All these along with the fresh air will impove your bubbas general health and wellbeing but will also improve –

Creative thinking through imaginative play
Coordination
Gross motor skills
Their knowledge of their own abilities e.g how high they can climb
Physical abilities and strength
Connection with nature

It can also decrease the chance of becoming nearsighted.

When bubbas spend all their time indoors and particularly infront of technology it can set them up for diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and depression which are all symptoms of a sedentary indoor lifestyle.

There are so many things we can do with bubbas outside –

Walking/ hiking
Going to the playground
Running around the yard or a park
Playing ball games
Bike riding
Water activities- water tables, water guns, wading pools, playing under a sprinkler, going to the beach, water balloon fights, playing with coloured water
Blowing bubbles
Gardening
Painting/ chalk drawings
Chasey/tag
Hide & Seek
Building sand castles
Making mud pies
Collecting insects
Rolling down a hill
Sliding down a hill on cardboard
Snow activities