About
Sprout House School is a program where children play outdoors every day in their own play yard, in the public park behind the school, and on walking field trips around town. Children take part in activities such as lifting logs, rolling acorns, digging with pointy sticks, jumping from a height, leaping over a rivulet, sliding on ice, and building collaboratively. They also investigate nature’s interrelated systems and cycles, including studying the seed-plant-flower-seed cycle of a green bean, the life cycle of the Eastern Hercules Beetle, and observing animal tracks in the snow, as well as eating sap from a maple tree, watching cherry blossoms bloom, and learning about new plants.
• Schedule: Children play outside every day, except when temperatures are under 20 degrees
Sprout House School states that it is a school where children play outdoors every day to strengthen their bodies, attention spans, communication skills, and sense of wonder. The program offers snacks that include fresh fruits and vegetables and natural crackers for morning and afternoon snacks daily, with no refined sugar, dyes, or artificial ingredients in the snacks served. A child is never left to their own screen devices, and teachers use screens rarely for teaching.
Sprout House School uses sustainable materials for play and art, including paint brushes and paint rather than plastic disposable markers, and liquid glue and paddles rather than glue sticks. Classrooms include many wooden toys, proportionally accurate block sets in each classroom, sturdy ride-on trucks, and calming wooden play kitchens. The program describes its class size as small and says this fosters a homelike setting.
One Sprout House alum describes eating sap from the maple tree, watching cherry blossoms bloom, and learning about new plants as some of the most interesting things learned there. A parent reports that their child later led a family hike up switchbacks and deer trails, identifying raptors, squirrel dreys, decomposers, and turkey tail mushrooms, and calling others over to “come check this out.” A grandparent states that Sprout House teachers teach about the children’s daily discoveries and the joy of their connections.
Last updated July 9, 2026.
• Schedule: Children play outside every day, except when temperatures are under 20 degrees
Sprout House School states that it is a school where children play outdoors every day to strengthen their bodies, attention spans, communication skills, and sense of wonder. The program offers snacks that include fresh fruits and vegetables and natural crackers for morning and afternoon snacks daily, with no refined sugar, dyes, or artificial ingredients in the snacks served. A child is never left to their own screen devices, and teachers use screens rarely for teaching.
Sprout House School uses sustainable materials for play and art, including paint brushes and paint rather than plastic disposable markers, and liquid glue and paddles rather than glue sticks. Classrooms include many wooden toys, proportionally accurate block sets in each classroom, sturdy ride-on trucks, and calming wooden play kitchens. The program describes its class size as small and says this fosters a homelike setting.
One Sprout House alum describes eating sap from the maple tree, watching cherry blossoms bloom, and learning about new plants as some of the most interesting things learned there. A parent reports that their child later led a family hike up switchbacks and deer trails, identifying raptors, squirrel dreys, decomposers, and turkey tail mushrooms, and calling others over to “come check this out.” A grandparent states that Sprout House teachers teach about the children’s daily discoveries and the joy of their connections.
Last updated July 9, 2026.
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