Research on child health and development has shown that the environments young children experience as they are growing shape their health and wellbeing. Not only their social environments, especially the family, but the physical, built and natural environments play their part, impacting on the developing child arguably from the moment of conception through infancy, childhood and adolescence into adulthood. The importance of relationships between small children and their families, caregivers and educators is now well understood by health and education professionals. Less well recognised as a positive force for children’s healthy development and wellbeing is the natural environment, and children’s relationships with it.