The Big Book of 100 Outdoor Activities

by Laura Minter, Tia Williams

Overview

There are times when keeping your young children occupied and entertained can be a real challenge, no matter how super-organized or imaginative your parenting skills. This is where The Big Book of 100 Outdoor Activities, a bumper book of boredom-busting fun, comes in. The aim is to provide parents with loads of simple and quick activities and creative ideas, to engage and entertain their children and encourage them to learn more about their natural environment.

Activities are grouped into eight handy sections:

• Wildlife Spotting
• In the Garden
• Messy Makes
• Arts and Crafts
• Games
• Rainy Day Activities
• Outdoor Cooking
• Music
• Dressing up

Each one is packed with things to do that range from spur-of-the-moment creative play, involving little or no preparation, to mini projects with step-by-step instructions. These are just a few of the ingenious ideas: making a baking soda rocket, painting with fruit, growing your own pizza toppings, feather printing and making a bug hotel to cooking smores, pressing flowers, leaf rubbing and wildlife spotting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784944049
Publisher:	Guild of Master Craftsman
Publication date:	07/10/2018
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Laura Minter and Tia Williams started Little Button Diaries, their crafting and baking blog, in 2013 to show that having children doesn't mean you have to stop doing the things you love. They have won various awards and are based in Brighton, Sussex, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction 8

Getting started 10

Wildlife spotting

1 Twig bird box 16

2 Nature spotter game 17

3 DIY terrarium 18

4 Bird's nest 20

5 Miniature pond 21

6 Pine-cone bird feeder 22

7 Bug hotel 23

8 Woodland walks 24

In the garden

9 Milk-bottle watering can 28

10 Newspaper seedling pots 29

11 Grassy caterpillars 30

12 Plant-pot birdbath 32

13 Shadow drawing 33

14 Garden pinwheel 34

15 Mini fruit and veg patch 35

16 Flowerpot person 36

17 Recycled planters 37

18 Lollipop bird feeder 38

19 Personalized tin pots 40

20 Paper-plate sundial 41

21 Painted twig pot 42

22 Garden sprinkler 43

Messy makes

23 Scented modelling dough 46

24 Easy Rocket 48

25 Clay snails 49

26 Water wall 50

27 Bubble snakes 52

28 Sand clay 53

29 Mud alphabet 54

30 Flower ice cubes 55

31 Natural clay tree face 55

32 Log table decoration 56

33 Colour-filled flowers 57

34 Outdoor cornflour goop 58

35 Poured paint pots 59

36 Footprint stepping stone 61

Art and crafts

37 Sticky flower collage 64

38 Natural paintbrushes 65

39 Nature weaving 66

40 Leaf-print bag 68

41 Rainbow leaf and petal art 69

42 Twig butterflies 70

43 Leaf rubbing 71

44 Nature faces 71

45 Leaf painting 72

46 Feather-print cards 73

47 Pine-cone wreath 74

48 Mud paint 76

49 Autumn-leaf bowl 77

50 Spooky spiderweb cards 78

51 Twig star garden decorations 79

52 Solar print notebooks 80

53 Land art 82

54 Dream catcher 83

Games

55 Tic-tac-toe 86

56 Colour hunt 87

57 Find the pebbles 88

58 Pressed-flower pairs game 89

59 Tin-can bowling 90

60 Outdoor games 91

61 Twig marble run 92

62 Nature tray game 93

Rainy day

63 Pressed-flower tea light 96

64 Weather chart 97

65 Star-gazing sewing cards 98

66 Matchbox bird box 99

67 Rose-petal perfume 100

68 Mermaid mirror 101

69 Lavender pouches 102

70 Leaf-print bowl 104

71 Pressed-flower bookmarks 105

72 Scented soaps 106

73 Bottle-top bugs 107

74 Tree-stump key rings 108

75 Clothes-peg animals 109

76 Leaf punching 110

77 Fruit and veg markers 110

78 Sycamore spinner 111

79 Mint lip balm 112

80 Wind chimes 113

Food and drink

81 Home-grown pizza toppings 116

82 S'mores 116

83 Chocolate-dipped apples 117

84 Forager's crumble 118

85 Fruit roll-ups 119

86 Garden smoothie 120

87 Fruity ice pops 120

88 Courgette, carrot and cheese muffins 121

89 Hedgehog rolls 122

Playing and make-believe

90 Superhero mask and cuffs 126

91 Stick wands 128

92 Fairy garden 129

93 Woodland animal masks 130

94 Feather headdress 132

95 Stick people 133

96 Toy's camping set 134

97 Floral crown 136

98 Wooden peg fairies 138

99 Woodland fairy wings 139

100 Musical twig instruments 140

About us 141

Authors' acknowledgements 141

Index 143