21 Things to Do With a Tree: An outdoor activity book

by Jane Wilsher, Martin Stanev (Illustrator)

Overview

A fresh and fun outdoors activity book to learn about and make friends with your very own (chosen) tree! 

First, select the friendly wooden giant that you want to get to know, then meet and explore it more fully with 21 games and activities, all taking place in the great outdoors.

Hug your tree, rub its bark, ask your tree how old it is and meet the animals that make their homes in its branches.

You can also take a bath with your tree (a forest bath that is!), play games together, and make forest art.

​This playful approach to an outdoor activity book supports learning, helps foster a vital bond with nature and stimulates creative and imaginative play for children of 6 and over.

Contents
Say hooray for trees!
Choose your tree
Meet your tree
Hug your tree
Draw a portrait of your tree
Rub your tree's bark
Ask your tree its age
Measure your tree
Talk leaves to your tree
Watch your tree over the year
Breathe with your tree
Meet your tree's animal friends
Can you eat your tree?
Picnic with your tree
Play tree tag
Dream a tree house
Climb your tree
Make forest art
Plant a new tree
Thank your tree
Look after your tree
More things to do with a tree
Mini tree glossary
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780711280540
Publisher:	Ivy Kids Eco
Publication date:	09/05/2023
Series:	21 Things to Do Outdoors
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 11.15(h) x (d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Jane Wilsher is an author and editor based in London. She has over 20 years’ experience publishing and making award-winning best-selling children’s books for all ages.

Table of Contents

Here are 21 leaf-loving, trunk-hugging things to do with a tree...
Shout HOORAY for trees!
Choose your tree
Meet your tree
Hug your tree!
Draw a portrait of your tree
Rub your tree’s bark
Ask your tree, “Are you young or old?”
Ask your tree, “How tall are you?”
Talk leaves with your tree
Watch your tree over time
Take a bath with your tree
Breathe in with your tree
Meet your tree’s animal friends
Look at your tree’s seeds
Ask if it’s a fruit tree
Plant a new tree
Play games with your tree
Make a house together
Climb your tree!
Create art with your tree
Thank your tree
Look after your tree
 

Editorial Reviews

“This activity book has information on bark rubbing and taking forest baths and taps into the trend for forest schools.”—The Bookseller, Children's Previews

From the Publisher

2023-09-23
Encouragement to adopt a tree, learn about trees in general, and appreciate and care for the trees in our world.

Wilsher cleverly folds in lots of learning and vocabulary while introducing children to all things arboreal. After beginning the activity book with the direction to choose a tree, the author moves from there to different things kids can do with their chosen friend: observe it, learn its parts, draw it, hug it (inviting others to join in if one person can’t reach all the way around the trunk), make bark rubbings, determine its age and height, examine its leaves, identify it, climb it, create art (scavenging from the ground, not picking live twigs or leaves), make a treehouse, play games with it, thank it, care for it, and look for seeds, fruit, and animals. The activities call on children to use different senses and skills to engage with the tree they’ve selected, and some of the options involving their tree’s fruit or seeds may require the kids’ power of observation over the course of multiple seasons. Stanev’s charming illustrations use spot, full-page, and double-page illustrations to depict steps, cycles, seasons, and many different types of trees. People depicted (mostly children) are widely diverse and include a wheelchair user and hijabis. Adult supervision and help are encouraged where appropriate.

A great interactive introduction to trees that will help children appreciate their many qualities and value. (Nonfiction activity book. 4-10)

Kirkus Reviews