Live Oak Kids
Nature Based Outdoor Enrichment Programs
in the East Bay, CA
Helping your child unlock skills and true joy in the great outdoors
Outdoor play — the ultimate sensory gym for growing minds and bodies.
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We see nature as an essential co-facilitator to help children explore, learn, and regulate their nervous systems. Our work is rooted in giving children the freedom to move, discover, and learn among the trees, dirt, and changing weather.
2025 Nature Playgroups in the East Bay, CA
Note: Enrichment programs are not occupational therapy services
Sensory Sprouts
Joaquin Miller Park
Oakland, CA
Fridays, 10:30-12:00
Ages 1-5
June 6, 13, 20, 27
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Sensory Sprouts is a neuroaffirming nature based sensory motor playgroup designed to foster coordination and confidence through sensory and social play activities.
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This group is open to all and perfect for kiddos who are
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Developing coordination skills
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Sensory "seekers"
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Developing impulse control
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Slow to warm up/sensitive
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Developing social play
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Benefit from time in nature
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Groups are co-lead by a Pediatric Occupational Therapist and Physical Therapist.
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Group is limited to 10 children + caregiver
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(This is not an OT or PT service)
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Forest Friends
Joaquin Miller Park
Oakland, CA
Summer 2025
Fridays 1:00-3:00 pm
Ages 5-7
June 6, 13, 20, 27
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Forest Friends is a neuroaffirming nature playgroup designed to foster nature connection, friendship and social emotional development through facilitated play and activities.
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Group is limited to 6-8 children
1:3 Child/Adult Ratio
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Acorn Adventures
Joaquin Miller Park
Oakland, CA
Saturday Series, 10 am -12 pm
Ages 1 - 4
Spring 2025 Session- FULL
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At Acorn Adventures we create the time and space for building lifelong nature connections, meeting new friends and developing new skills, amid the healing and rejuvenating properties of the forest.
Join us in making time for this sacred childhood experience. Groups include stories, snacks, swings, nature play and exploration.
Group is limited to 12 children + caregiver
Our nature playgroups might be a good fit if you’re looking for…
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A way to encourage your child to spend more time outside.
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Opportunities for your child to interact and play with other kids.
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Activities to help your child to develop coordination and confidence.
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Rich sensory play and exploration opportunities
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Neuroaffirming play experiences
Nature playgroups are lead by pediatric occupational and physical therapists, however these are not considered therapy services. If you’re child needs more direct support to build physical, emotional, or social skills, check out our occupational therapy services.
"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in." ~Rachel Carson​ ​​​
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Live Oak Kids is part of the Children and Nature Network
LOKi acknowledges that we gather on the traditional and contemporary lands of the Lisjan Ohlone and other Indigenous peoples. For thousands of years, hundreds of generations, the Lisjan Ohlone people have lived on the land that is now known as the East Bay in the San Francisco Bay Area. "We did not own the land, we belonged to it."