Fun Outdoor Curriculum and Classes for Homeschoolers in Santa Barbara, California
Curriculum and educational outdoor activities for homeschoolers in Santa Barbara, California. Play-based learning for toddlers, preschoolers, and young kids in local greenspaces, year-round!
Tinkergarten’s outdoor, play-based classes and curriculum were designed by experts and loved by families in Santa Barbara, California. Kids ages 1-8 have learned through outdoor play all year round in Tinkergarten local classes, schools, homes, and more.
When kids learn outside, they develop critical early learning skills like creativity, empathy, and problem solving. Families can use our free, DIY activities to help kids learn following the Tinkergarten curriculum and way of teaching.
Try any of our hundreds of easy DIY learning activities, or learn more about how young kids learn and how to support that process on our blog.. Then, head outside and join the other families in Santa Barbara, California today to play and learn outdoors together!
Two Ways to Tinkergarten
Teaching in a classroom or homeschool
Amanda, Flagstaff, AZ
Amanda gets inspiration from Tinkergarten’s blog to inspire outdoor learning in their classroom.
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Bringing it home
Courtney, Durham, NC
Courtney supplements their child's preschool experience with outdoor, play-based learning.
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Why our homeschooling families love Tinkergarten:
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Nature
+Our classroom is nature, and the choice to school at home so often aligns with a desire for the best possible classroom.
In a world of uncertainty, I have been blessed to be reminded each week of the amazing power of wonder. To see children experience the natural world around them with such joy gives me hope. The hours that I spend outside as a Tinkergarten teacher are some of the best, week after week.
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Open-Ended Learning
+All of our activities are play-based, child-led and multi-age, matching nicely with the individual learning design a homeschooled child receives.
Each class I observed how engaged the kids were in the explorations and could tell that they were so immersed that they could've continued happily for much longer.
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Eight Essential Skills
+The program helps kids develop a strong foundation in 8 essential skills they’ll need to become capable, confident and creative learners.
I learned to be more patient and child-led in my interactions. I have changed my perspective around how to initiate an idea and let the kids run with it.
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Social
+Our live programming, both in person and online, is interactive and designed to build strong class communities.
We learned another way to play with them, to approach nature, and to ask them things like 'What do you think? What do you see?'
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At-Home Curriculum
+Homeschooling parents use our at-home activities and resources for grown-ups to keep purposeful play going all week long.
In a world of uncertainty, I have been blessed to be reminded each week of the amazing power of wonder. To see children experience the natural world around them with such joy gives me hope. The hours that I spend outside as a Tinkergarten teacher are some of the best, week after week.
~ Tinkergarten Teacher