I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of NatureI Love Dirt! presents 52 open-ended activities to help you engage your child in the outdoors. No matter what your location—from a small patch of green in the city to the wide-open meadows of the country—each activity is meant to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a child's sense of wonder. Jennifer Ward is the author of numerous acclaimed parenting books and books for children, inspired by nature. "Jennifer Ward has created a book that will serve to gently introduce parents to nature, even as parents are using it to help guide a child into the narural world. Children—and parents—learn to observe, as well as appreciate, the basic joys of getting their hands dirty and feet wet. Discoveres become shared experience."—from the forword by Richard Louv |
Contents
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Leaf Looking | 18 |
Fall | 19 |
Time Out | 81 |
Zoom In | 84 |
A Thinking Place | 87 |
Wild HideandSeek | 89 |
Take a Walk on the Wild Side | 91 |
Some Web | 94 |
RolyPoly Races | 96 |
Look Up Look Down Look All Around | 98 |
Going On a Bird Hunt | 21 |
Be Like Audubon | 25 |
A Little Birdie Told Me | 28 |
Up Up and Away | 31 |
Build That Nest | 33 |
Rain Rain Come Again | 36 |
Puddle Jumpers | 38 |
Summer Activities for Hot Days and Warm Nights | 41 |
Digging Dirt | 43 |
Antics | 46 |
Sun Fun | 49 |
Butterfly Café | 51 |
Ladybug Ladybug | 54 |
Handy Plants | 56 |
Wow Water | 58 |
WaterHole Watching | 61 |
Stone Age | 64 |
Rock n Roll | 66 |
Backyard Lullaby | 69 |
Moon Shadows | 72 |
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star | 75 |
Activities for Cool Days and Cloudy Weather | 79 |
Cloud Racing | 101 |
Wandering Wind | 103 |
Say Whoosh | 105 |
What Goes Up Must Come Down | 108 |
Groovy Gravity | 111 |
Falling for Nature | 113 |
Winter Activities for Cold Days and Snowy Weather | 117 |
Tweet Treat | 119 |
Snow Me Some Fun | 122 |
Fluffy Flakes | 124 |
Cloud Breath | 127 |
DottoDot Stars | 129 |
Bare Naked Trees | 131 |
Snow Tales | 134 |
Feathers n Fur | 136 |
Slip Slide Wild Ride | 138 |
Wild and Wintry | 140 |
Winter Garden | 143 |
Resources and Recommended Reading | 147 |
About the Author | 151 |
About the Illustrator | 153 |
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