Seminar title: Young Children Contribute to Nature Stewardship | Abstract: I examine how stewardship can offer young children opportunities to act as agents of change within their local socio-ecological communities. I designed and implemented a 12-week stewardship program for children aged 6-8 years, based at River Primary School and Blackridge Outdoor Nursery in Scotland, UK. Using a participatory approach, I identified seven key elements that provided affordances and scaffolding for meaningful engagement: (a) Children’s Stewardship as a Practice of Using Tools; (b) Stewardship as Voluntary Engagement and Ethical Participation; (c) stewardship as a social and relational experience; (d) stewardship as co-learning: Nature educator-child collaboration; ( e) stewardship as tangible change; (f) stewardship as Nature-led encounters; (g) as Play (Play-stewardship). The findings show that when stewardship is offered in the presence of these elements, young children are empowered to engage actively and caringly with the broader community of life. This work contributes to the field of environmental education, demonstrating that children can meaningfully restore and care for their communities when provided with the appropriate context and support.