In today's era of rapid technological development, the environment in which kid grow up has quietly changed dramatically. Tablets and electronic games fill their lives, and more and more children are trapped indoors for a long time and are reluctant to go out to play. This often harms their health and reduces their quality of life. As parents, you need to encourage your kids to increase their outdoor activity time and stay away from electronic devices, which will help their physical health and help them become stronger emotionally and intellectually.
1.Helps reduce the kid’s body mass index
Outdoor games can help lower kid's body mass index and increase energy expenditure. In 1980, only 7% of kids met the criteria for obesity. Thirty years later, more than one-third of kids may fall into the obese category. The main reason for the sharp rise in childhood obesity is that most children now eat more and exercise less. Therefore, it is particularly important to let children participate in outdoor games. Many outdoor games have high exercise intensity, such as playing football and basketball. Take playing football as an example. After a football game, children can exercise a considerable amount of energy, which can consume a lot of calories, thus helping to reduce the accumulation of body fat. And compared with indoor activities, when children exercise outdoors, their energy will become more abundant. There is a wide space outdoors, and under the stimulation of different environments, children are more likely to immerse themselves in the joy brought by exercise and unconsciously exercise for a longer time. At the same time, when children participate in outdoor games, the blood circulation in the body is accelerated, which helps to enhance cardiopulmonary function. At the same time, when playing games outdoors, children's attention is mainly focused on the game itself and the surrounding environment, unlike indoors, where they may often be tempted by delicious food or want to eat because of boredom. The fresh air, beautiful scenery and various interesting game activities outdoors can distract them from the appeal of food and reduce children's desire to eat snacks.
2.Helps improve kid's athletic ability
Outdoor sports have a significant role and influence in improving children's athletic ability. They can enhance children's cardiopulmonary function and strengthen children's muscle strength. Exercises such as climbing and jumping can stretch and contract children's muscle fibers. After long-term exercise, the muscle strength of children's upper limbs, lower limbs and core parts will be significantly enhanced. At the same time, outdoor sports can also improve children's body flexibility. Many movements in outdoor sports require the body to stretch and bend significantly, such as doing some simple yoga movements and rolling on the grass. These movements can help children stretch the muscles and ligaments around the joints, making the joints more mobile and the body more flexible. In addition, children can also improve their body coordination during outdoor activities. Ball sports require children's eyes, hands, feet and other parts of the body to cooperate with each other to accurately complete actions such as catching, passing, dribbling, and shooting. In the process of continuous practice and play, children's body coordination will gradually improve, and they will be able to complete a series of complex movements more smoothly and accurately. Outdoor sports such as walking on a balance beam, playing dodgeball, and skipping rope can also enhance children's balance ability and speed up their reaction speed.
3.It is very helpful for kid's mental health
Outdoor games are a place for children and adults to release stress and anxiety. In modern life, families, whether children or parents, face various pressures. Outdoor games or sports can provide them with a window to release and relax. Outdoors, children can stay away from the pressure of study and the troubles in life, and focus on sports and getting close to the natural environment. Parents can also forget some troubles and unhappiness in the workplace or life in outdoor activities, making their body and mind free and simple. At the same time, parents can also participate in challenging outdoor activities with their children, such as hiking and rock climbing, and overcome various difficulties and obstacles with their children during hiking or rock climbing. Parents can also observe their children's performance when they encounter difficulties. If the child becomes impatient, parents can guide and encourage the child in time, so that the child will not retreat in the face of difficulties and cultivate the child's tenacious will. This psychological resilience will extend to the child's life and study, helping them to better cope with setbacks and difficulties and become braver.
4.Improve kid's social skills
Playing outdoors can cultivate children's spirit of cooperation and competitive awareness. Many outdoor sports, such as football, basketball, swings and other sports, require children to cooperate and collaborate with each other to win. In this process, children will learn how to communicate and divide the work with their teammates, and understand their roles and responsibilities in a team. Compared with the book knowledge taught by teachers in school, outdoor sports can better and faster cultivate children's sportsmanship, let children know that there is competition in sports, but this kind of competition is benign competition. In the process of the game, children will learn to respect opponents, abide by the rules, treat winning and losing correctly, and improve their self-competitive awareness and adaptability. At the same time, outdoor sports can help children have the opportunity to meet partners of different ages and backgrounds and expand their social circles. In the process of playing and exercising with friends, children learn skills to interact with others, such as sharing, mutual assistance, tolerance, etc., which helps children establish good interpersonal relationships and lay the foundation for future social life.
5.Beneficial to children's intellectual development
Playing outdoors has many benefits for children's intellectual development, mainly in terms of improving cognitive ability, expanding thinking ability, and stimulating creativity. The outdoor environment can bring children sensory experiences such as vision, hearing, smell, and touch. When children play outdoors, they can see the colors and shapes of flowers, plants, and trees, the changes in clouds in the sky, hear the singing of birds, the rustling of leaves in the wind, smell the fragrance of flowers, the breath of soil, touch the texture of tree trunks, and the coolness of streams. These rich sensory experiences can stimulate the connection and development of brain neurons, and help improve children's perception and cognitive level. Outdoors are a treasure trove of knowledge in nature. Children can directly observe natural phenomena such as the change of seasons, the growth and changes of animals and plants, and understand different geographical environments and ecosystems during the game. At the same time, in outdoor places such as parks and squares, children can also come into contact with different people, observe people's various activities and social interactions, thereby increasing their understanding and understanding of society and broadening their knowledge.
On weekends, parents can participate in more outdoor sports with their children. Outdoor facilities such as climbing frames and slides can allow children to experience spatial concepts such as up and down, front and back, left and right. In the process of running, jumping and chasing, children can also better understand mathematical concepts such as distance, speed and direction, which helps the development of children's mathematical thinking and stimulates their creativity and innovative thinking.
6.Promote growth and development of infant
For babies of young age, parents can take their children to play outdoors more often. Contact with nature can fully exercise all parts of the child's body. For babies who have just learned to walk, parents can choose an open field and hold their baby's hand to learn to walk. This can stimulate the baby's bone growth, strengthen muscle strength, improve the baby's body coordination and balance ability, and allow the baby to adapt better and faster to the process from crawling to walking. Moreover, appropriate outdoor exercise can make the child's sleep quality higher and more conducive to physical growth. Outdoor activities can also enhance the baby's immunity. The sunlight, air and other factors in the outdoor environment can promote the metabolism of the child's body. The ultraviolet rays in the sunlight can also help the child synthesize vitamin D and promote calcium absorption. At the same time, contact with microorganisms in the natural environment can exercise the child's immune system and enhance resistance to disease.
The rich and diverse outdoor environment provides children with rich sensory stimulation. They can see colorful flowers, hear the cheerful birdsong, smell the fresh fragrance of flowers, etc., which helps to promote the development of children's vision, hearing, smell, touch and other senses and improve the acuity of the senses.
7.Promotes Good Teen and Family Relationship Development
Teenagers who are in the stage of physical development will have a period of rebellion, and children may become unwilling to communicate with their parents. Parents can organize a family outdoor activity, through the games and activities that children like, such as playing football, throwing frisbees, skipping ropes and other projects, so that children can relax in the game. Parents can also prepare a beautiful picnic ingredients and barbecue with relatives and friends outdoors to enjoy the outdoor time.
Compared with chatting with parents face to face at home, older children and teenagers may be more willing to walk side by side with their parents to confide their inner thoughts or share some little secrets. Experiencing a short walk outdoors is also a good time for parents and children to communicate with each other. It allows parents to understand some changes and challenges in their children's lives. At the same time, parents can also guide and help their children solve some problems they encounter. This will also make children more willing to communicate with their parents, become more trusting of their parents, and children will be more willing to bravely solve the difficulties they encounter in the future.
8.Motivate kids to learn natural sciences
Outdoor activities allow children to be in nature and directly observe natural phenomena such as the changing of seasons, changes in day and night, wind, rain, thunder and lightning. For example, in spring, children can see flowers blooming and trees sprouting, and understand the growth patterns of plants; at night, children can look up at the stars and the moon, which arouses their curiosity and thinking about celestial bodies in the universe. These provide the most intuitive materials for learning natural science knowledge. They can also allow children to learn to contact biodiversity. In outdoor environments such as parks and suburbs, children can come into contact with a variety of animals and plants and observe their forms, behaviors and living habits. They will also see natural phenomena such as birds building nests, bees collecting honey, and ants moving, which will make children have a strong interest in biology. Children are willing to take the initiative to understand knowledge such as animal classification and ecosystems, and stimulate children's independent learning ability.
9.Raise public awareness of environmental protection
Participation in outdoor activities can subtly make children and parents aware of the importance of environmental protection and enhance the environmental awareness of the whole people. When playing outdoors, people will face various environmental problems, such as polluted rivers, cut down forests, piled up garbage, etc. This intuitive feeling can make children and parents more deeply aware of the seriousness of environmental problems, and then stimulate their environmental awareness. For example, seeing sewage discharge causing the water quality to turn black and smelly by the river will make people strongly aware of the urgency of water pollution control. Outdoor activities not only provide a natural place for environmental education, but people can also learn about ecosystems, biodiversity and other knowledge in nature, and understand the importance of natural laws and ecological balance. For example, in bird watching activities, professionals can explain the ecological habits of birds and the significance of habitat protection, so that participants can learn environmental protection knowledge through observation. Parents can also participate in group outdoor activities with their children, such as hiking and camping. In team activities, members will exchange their views and feelings about the natural environment and share environmental protection experiences and practices. This interaction can inspire each other, strengthen environmental awareness, and form a good environmental atmosphere. At the same time, when people participate in outdoor activities, they usually share photos, videos and experiences on social media, which not only records their own wonderful experiences, but also shows more people the beauty of nature and the importance of environmental protection, attracts more people to pay attention to environmental issues, and expands the scope of environmental awareness.
10.Improve kid's independence
Outdoor activities are very helpful for children's independence. For example, in outdoor activities such as mountaineering and hiking, children will face a variety of route choices. They need to observe the terrain, consider their own abilities and time, and independently decide the direction to go. And when participating in outdoor activities such as camping, children can participate in activity planning, such as what items to prepare and how to arrange the camp layout. They need to think and put forward their own ideas and suggestions based on the goals and actual conditions of the activities, which helps to cultivate their independent thinking and planning abilities. Also, in outdoor activities, children will encounter various natural problems, such as weather changes and getting lost. When it rains suddenly, children need to find a place to shelter from the rain by themselves, or use existing tools and materials to build temporary shelters. These experiences can make children calmer and more independent when facing problems.
Outdoor play is more than just getting kids outside to have fun. It is also an important activity that builds children's physical strength, sharpens their brains, soothes their emotions and improves their social skills. Every moment spent outdoors is an opportunity for children to learn, grow and thrive. If you want add a outdoor playset in your backyard， contact us for the competitive price and quality！
