The 1st 1,000 days project was set-up in response to the Welsh Parliament’s 1,000 Days consultation, which described the first 3 years of a child’s life as “a time of tremendous potential and enormous vulnerability”.
Run by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority’, the project aims to connect young families with nature and the outdoors, highlighting the value of wild spaces and outdoor play in contributing to the wellbeing of young children and their families.
Activities include:
- Sensory play through soil, sand, bird seed and sawdust
- Planting vegetables
- Mud painting
- Mini beast hunting
- Den building
- Making bird feeders
- Seasonal activities such as apple and black berry picking.
We aim to provide an opportunity for parents to come together to gain positive outdoor experiences to support children to develop motor skills, speech and social skills in a safe stimulating environment.
Five ways to well-being
The overall aim of the project is to encouraging families to adopt the five ways to well-being into their everyday lives:
- Connect
- Be active
- Give
- Take notice
- Keep learning.
We aim to ‘engage’ parents and young children with the outdoors, in particular the spaces in and around their communities.
There is strong evidence of an increasing to disconnect with nature and the outdoor environment across society, if we can reverse this trend, where better than to start with new parents and young children?
For more information contact:
Kelly Davies
Outdoor Play Worker
Email: learning@pembrokeshirecoast.org.uk
