Basic ideas about forest education The children experience creation intensively and holistically. Here you can observe growth and life, as well as the process. By spending a long time outdoors, the children experience first-hand what special features the different seasons have. Experiencing and dealing with the existential elements of fire, water, air and earth and with natural phenomena such as rain, fog, hail, snow and sun enrich the child's overall personality. Natural forest sounds and smells have been proven to have a calming effect on mental balance, which makes the forest special, the opposite of our other current environment. The forest offers a balance to the often dominant hectic pace of everyday life. The situation in the forest group is different than in a conventional kindergarten group. Due to the spatial change, the children gain a more sensitive perception of their surroundings and their counterparts. The cohesion, the togetherness, the reliance on each other comes to another level here. By abolishing the real walls, the children experience their own inner limits. The understanding of ecological connections in nature is awakened and the diversity of the forest habitat is shown. Forest education is about individual experiences and first-hand experiences.