Introduction/specifics

The forest-kindergarten Lehrwaldhüpfer is a facility for up to 30 children aged 3 to school age in 1.5 groups.

Opening and childcare hours

Extended opening hours (35.0 hours/week)

Mon - Fri | 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. 

Spending time in nature or in the forest allows children to gather primary experiences. Children explore their environment by literally grasping things. Appropriating things with all their senses—

sight, smell, hearing, touch, feeling, taste

—not only leads to a more differentiated perception of their own bodies. This sensuality motivates children and develops their imagination and creativity! Things from nature are placed in a corresponding context. Their own actions are challenged. When interacting with each other and playing together, a sense of community, agreement, and cooperation are required. Everyone can contribute their personal skills. Nature and the forest offer a stress-free environment for independent activity, movement, discovery, testing, invention, experimentation – in short, for play.

Even time takes on a different dimension in the forest. Slowness determines the processes that take place, the becoming and passing away in the forest. The changing nature of the seasons can be experienced as something that cannot be accelerated and follows a recurring, fixed pattern. In the forest, children can experience a silence that they hardly ever experience in their everyday lives.

The vastness and open space of the forest allow children who need more peace and quiet to retreat, while others can live out their desire for movement at the same time. Children also experience safety “without protective walls.”