Educator focus groups (all physical literacy domains)
Fifteen focus groups took place (9 at 3-months and 6 at 6-months), with 3–5 participants in each group. The focus groups included educators from multiple sites and took place in public locations. Educators from all intervention sites were represented in the focus groups. The focus groups included a series of questions divided into several categories: active outdoor play, loose parts, risk-taking, policies, and challenges/benefits of the intervention. For example, educators were asked “what happened when loose parts were introduced in the outdoor environment for the children?”, “describe any changes you may have seen in the children’s development—social, cognitive, physical, emotional, or others”, and “what do you do when children are playing outside?”. These focus groups, which lasted approximately 45 to 60 min, allowed for more in-depth exploration of what was challenging and/or what was helpful to educators in using the loose parts in their daily activities. The focus group methodology has been described previously [