Application for 2026 Winter - Fall Season & 2026 - 2027 PLAYschool Year is now open
MIAMI NATURE PLAYschool Programs
are designed to positively connect young children and their families with nature, creating opportunities to stimulate their innate curiosity about the Natural World.
🌿 Why Nature-Based, Unstructured Play Is the Best Gift You Can Give Your Child
✨ What We Offer
At Miami Nature Playschool and our affiliated programs, we believe childhood thrives in wild spaces—not in rigid routines. Our outdoor, bilingual programs are designed to nurture your child’s curiosity, emotional intelligence, and secure attachment through play-centered experiences in nature.
👶 For Infants & Toddlers and their caregivers: Emotional Support for You and Your Child
Parenting is beautiful—and sometimes overwhelming. At our Parent & Child Institute, caregivers receive compassionate guidance from trained facilitators who help you navigate emotional flooding and dysregulation. Together, we explore how to strengthen your attunement and build secure, loving bonds with your little one.
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🌲 For Preschoolers: Healing Through Play
In our Adventures in the Forest program, children express their emotions freely through unstructured, non-directed play. With the gentle presence of Mentors, they begin to process trauma, explore their inner world, and build emotional resilience—without needing words.
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🧠The Science Behind the Magic
Our Synergistic Nature-Play philosophy is rooted in neuroscience and play therapy. There’s no rigid curriculum—just the wisdom of nature and the present needs of each child. Every day brings new lessons, shaped by the environment and the children’s own motivations.
🌟 Why our Parents Loves being part of our Community
• Emotionally attuned parenting: We support your journey, not just your child’s.
• Mental wellness meets nature: Our programs integrate therapeutic insights with outdoor immersion.
• Community-centered: You’ll find a tribe of like-minded parents who value connection, creativity, and conscious living.
• Bilingual and inclusive: We celebrate diverse families and foster belonging.
Emotional
Nature is a healing salve for anxiety and inner conflicted emotions.
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Often children reveal stress from their home life either physically or verbally. At MNP we believe It is important guide, help and give space to children to feel comfortable to talk about their feelings and troubles.
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At the same time we maintain the position that simply being in nature is therapeutic and to resist taking on the role of child-therapist or confidante.
Social
We look for children to recognize both their own abilities and those of others.
Competition is prevalent in our world, looking for the final winner in every step of our life.
The Forest kindergarten model values cooperation, teamwork and encourages the idea that we can accomplish more when we work together without taking away the right of the children to express their desires and to develop the ability to be comfortable by themselves.
Physical
There are so many physical benefits as a result of spending time outside that we could not list them all here. Benefits for children supported by scientific studies includes:
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*Increase creativity and imagination.
*Boost the immune system
*20 minutes outdoors improves the ability to focus, even in children diagnosed with ADHD.
*Reduce the risk of myopia on children and
*Helps fight anxiety and stress.