Tinkergarten.
Delightful, Skill-Boosting Curriculum
Designed to support kids being healthy, curious, capable learners through exploring the outside world.
Spring Classes
Experience our outdoor curriculum as live, weekly classes in your neighborhood.
This Spring, we focus on creativity—the ability to imagine original ideas or solutions to problems and make them happen. We’ll help kids develop creative mindsets and strategies that they can use throughout their lives to invent new things, solve problems, express their ideas and feelings, and nurture relationships. And, we’ll do it all through enriching, outdoor play!
Summer Tinkergarten CAMPS
This Summer, our curriculum is designed to help each child strengthen and balance their senses in the most stimulating and soothing classroom of all—the great outdoors. We’ll activate the senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. We’ll focus on integrating multiple senses at once and introduce two hidden senses that, though less known, have a major impact on how kids feel and learn—the vestibular system and proprioception. We’ll wrap up with lessons designed to help us explore the senses we love most at Tinkergarten.
We meet Monday to Friday from 9:30-11:00 AM! Sometimes we will even stay for a picnic lunch in the beautiful parks and let our play continue as organically as it starts!
How it works
Outside is our classroom
We have no walls. Creatures are our teachers, mud and sticks are our tools. Every lesson connects us to nature.
Open-ended, child-led
Kids learn best when they lead the way. We also help grownups support their child.
Irresistible
invitations to play
Each lesson is engineered to engage kids in play that they simply can’t refuse!
Who you get
Hi friends! I am a mom, professor, teacher, learner, and outdoor enthusiast! I am a K-12 certified teacher and am completing my certification to be a School Principal. I am an adjunct professor in the School of Education at a local university! I am also staying home with our two kids to learn, play and grow with them. I have lived in Washington, Oregon, Colorado, and overseas in England, Vietnam, and Germany. No matter the weather, exploring, playing, and getting dirty outdoors are our favorite things. We hope you will join us for some outdoor fun!
Spring Curriculum Focus – Creativity
This Spring, we focus on creativity—the ability to imagine original ideas or solutions to problems and make them happen. We’ll help kids develop creative mindsets and strategies that they can use throughout their lives to invent new things, solve problems, express their ideas and feelings, and nurture relationships. And, we’ll do it all through enriching, outdoor play!
The series of lessons follow a steady progression and are organized into three units (see below).
Get an overview of the curriculum journey below, or read more in-depth details on our season map.
Summer CAMP Focus – Senses
Our senses are central to how we experience the world, how we behave, and how we learn. This Summer, our curriculum is designed to help each
child strengthen and balance their senses in the most stimulating and soothing classroom of all—the great outdoors.
The series of lessons meets daily in a CAMP format M-F 9:30-11:00.
What you get:
- 9 x 60 minute outdoor play-based inquiry lessons
- Small class size (up to 15 children)
- Inquiry-based experiential learning that emphasizes sensory play
- Mixed-age classes for kids 1.5 to 8 years – Read about the Benefits of Mixed-Aged Learning
- 4 seasons of play to discover all the beauty of the Pacific Northwest year-round
- Post-lesson communication with photos and resources to continue exploring the lesson focus.
- Siblings receive a 25% discount when purchased in the same order.
A parent or guardian must attend.
Tinkergarten classes are offered at different locations in Spokane and focus on helping you and your family access and enjoy our beautiful home year-round regardless of the weather. In the Pacific Northwest, there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. Classes facilitate open-ended, exploratory, nature PLAY. Children build in their behavioral schema play through hands-on, experiential learning in mixed-age classes. Tinkergarten is a joy to children and a fantastic opportunity for caregivers to connect and build community. Tinkergarten terms and conditions
Still have questions?
Try our Tinkergarten FAQ page or connect with me.
