Using Buttercup Learning as a home educator
Are you a home educator with a passion for utilising nature and the outdoor environment?
Our physical and digital resources support children aged 4-8 to engage with the natural world, learning through play in a self directed way.
Child-led learning with sustainability at its heart
As a home educator, you know that the best learning happens when it’s led by the learner. That’s why we’ve created resources that are flexible enough to give your child the freedom to choose what they engage with, following their own interests.
The online resources encourage exploration of sustainability topics while also encouraging kids to take their learning away from the screen and into the real world. It’s a blended approach that allows learning to take place through curiosity and play.
How to use Buttercup’s resources in your home ed classroom
Art Prints for your educational wall displays
Our premium nature prints do more than beautify your space—they come with interactive online lessons and suggested outdoor activities, offering a comprehensive, hands-on learning experience
Subscription boxes with seasonal activities
Your quarterly box will include indoor and outdoor nature education activities, plus unique online resources designed for the season in our private community space.
Online learning to support your curriculum [to come]
Our online learning platform brings together quizzes, word puzzles, videos, and more to allow your child to direct their own sustainability learning.
FAQs for home educators
What age range are your products aimed at? children aged 4-8 years old.
Nature-based resources tailored to fit your curriculum
We don’t believe budget should be a barrier to learning.
That’s why we’ve worked as hard on our free resources as we have on our paid ones.
Resources in our Newsletter
Influenced by Montessori and forest school ethos, Buttercup’s eco and sustainable resources can be tailored to the UK national curriculum, early years foundation stage, key stages 1 and 2, as well as to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the 2020 National Outdoor Learning Curriculum.
Curious About Nature Podcast
Buttercup founder Rachel Mills hosts the Curious About Nature podcast, featuring guests from teachers to beekeepers to tent sharers, discussing topics like outdoor learning, mindfulness in nature, and the circular economy.
The Buttercup
Blog
Discover tips for sustainable living, ways to boost children’s mental health, instructions for scavenger hunts and nature play, interviews with eco heroes and all sorts of other activities, advice and inspiration.
