Let's Go Outside!: Outdoor Activities and Projects to Get You and Your Kids Closer to Nature

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Shambhala Publications, Jul 14, 2009 - Family & Relationships - 144 pages
Engage your child in outdoor play, nature outings, and environmental explorations. Chase and be chased in a game of capture the flag. Use the power of the sun to craft your own shadow prints. Explore the stars on a late night walk. Create a field guide to your neighborhood. Through 52 ideas—some classic and some new—Let's Go Outside! offers a range of activities perfect for children ages 8 to 12. Whether you're in the country, the city, or anywhere in between, this book is sure to help you get outside—and run, dance, hike, or camp—with your preteen.

Sections of the book include:

   • Back to Basics: Reconnecting with twists on traditional games and activities such as Capture the Flag
   • Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Picnics, doing homework outdoors, and socializing opportunities outdoors
   • Outdoor Adventures: Canoeing, biking, and camping
   • Environmental Experiments: Ways to explore how nature works
 

Contents

Begging for Bike Time
95
Happy Campers
98
Go Fish
101
The Bugliest Scavenger Hunt Ever
104
Snow Stepping
108
Dig It Play with Clay
110
Paddle It
112
Wonders beneath the Water
115

Hop to It with Hopscotch
25
Five Fine Forts
28
Ten Types of Tag
32
Buried Treasure
39
Spy Games
42
making the ordinary extraordinary
45
Up with the Birds
47
Outdoor Diner
50
Make a Tree Swing
54
Moonlight Walk
57
Cloud Spotters
60
Sun Fun Shadow Prints
63
Paper Makers
66
Press It Fine Flower Preservation
69
Picture This
72
Playground for Poets
75
Flower Fashionista
79
Tubbles of Bubbles
81
A Tree of My Very Own
87
Peek and Seek from Underneath
90
get your outdoor adventure on
93
Pan It
118
Were Going on a Hole Hunt
120
ecominded experiences
123
Toil with the Soil
125
Garden and Nature Journal
130
Toads Castle
133
Counting on Ladybugs
136
Personal Backyard Field Guide
139
Going Wild
141
Magnificent Migrations
143
Trash to Treasurefor Wildlife
146
Make a Rain Catcher
149
Bath Time Is for the Birds
151
Join It Create a Nature Nut Club
154
Nectar Bice
157
Backyard Bird Count
161
Wonderfall Leaves
164
Pollinators Palace
168
TIPS AND RESOURCES
171
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
176
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About the author (2009)

Jennifer Ward is the author of numerous children’s books, all of which present nature to kids. Her award-winning titles have been featured in magazines such as Ranger Rick, Your Big Backyard, Learning, and Foreword, and she has been interviewed and featured on national television and local radio. She is a regular speaker at conferences and schools across the country, where she instills the importance of literacy and the wonders waiting to be discovered in the natural world.

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