Muddy boots: outdoor activities for children

This book is for kids and families who value outdoor exploration and grandparents who long for their grandchildren to enjoy the same unfettered time in nature that they did. Although not primarily about mud, these activities encourage all hands to get dirty as children explore the world around them. This delightful book features a wide range of hands-on activities for kids, including: mud pies, mud monsters, mud paintings, and magic mud, stick forts, tepees, and sunflower houses, twig rafts, acorn cap boats, and fairy boats, flower presses, dandelion chains, and ice orbs, sun clocks, rain paintings, and story stones.

"Distributed by NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK"--T.p. verso

Muddy Boots; table of contents; a note to parents; a note to kids; mud; mud pies; mud seed bombs; mud monsters; mud bricks; magic mud; mud painting; mud scratch art; indoor mud; forts; stick forts; lean-to; igloos; tepees; sunflower house; bean tepee; sticks and stones; tiny twig rafts; painting with sticks; nature weaving; stick "peeps, "; painted walking sticks; scavenging sticks; rocks; sun clock; rocky beach art; stone tower game; skipping rocks; rock cairns; painted rocks; letter rocks; story stones; animal rocks; water; puddle science; rain painting; river making; birch bark canoes.

Fairy boatsacorn cap boats; water wonder watcher; ice orbs and lanterns; explore, create, repeat; nature scavenger hunt; flower/leaf press; contact paper collage; dandelion chains; bug hunts; moth madness; bird watching; 3 ways to help the birds; bird calls; animal tracks; cloud watching; one final act; books to continue the romp; acknowledgments.