It's all about getting kids outdoors and helping them to "just be kids" in the way that former generations did.
Kids are usually so directed in their activities now, and very little of their time is devoted to unstructured, imaginative free play outside.
So Tinkergarten basically encourages that.
It's not completely unstructured, but the direction given is flexible and minimal.
In this class, the leader read Stone Soup to the kids and then encouraged them to make their own stone soup!
They pretended various forest finds were celery, carrots, potatoes, etc. And they stirred up their watery, muddy soups with sticks.
It was really fun!
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