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Sticks and Stones: A Kid's Guide to Building and Exploring in the Great Outdoors
SKU
082716
ISBN
9780760362563
Grade 3-8
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Description
If your children are lovers of construction, especially with found objects, this book will be an inspiration! Fallen logs become a tripod for a hanging pot, a useful travois, or even an easel to display artwork. Smaller found sticks become a floating raft, a wattle-style fence, or a wee catapult! Occasionally a hole will need to be drilled or a log sawed and an adult may be summoned. If you have access to a safe creek to play in, there are more ideas like building a rock dam or making stone cairns. Safety concerns are always noted, but clear instructions and helpful photos show you the ideas. Get messy and have fun outside! ~Sara
Publisher's Description of Sticks and Stones: A Kid's Guide to Building and Exploring in the Great Outdoors
Discover a treasure trove of exciting nature-based building, engineering, and artistic ideas for children in Sticks and Stones. This comprehensive guide features tools, toys, and games kids can create right outside their door.
Kids will love building cabins, bridges, dams rock gardens, and more. They’ll discover that creating art is more fun outdoors as they learn to make making stone pendants, ochre paint, and weaving. A variety of large and small-scale activities boost engineering, creative, and problem-solving skills, all while promoting fun. With simple tools and materials a branch becomes a fishing pole, and logs turn into a simple seesaw.
Opportunities and materials for productive play exist everywhere in nature. Author Melissa Lennig (of the blog Fireflies and Mud Pies) introduces today’s screen-overloaded kids to a world of exploring and adventure. Whether camping in the woods or hanging out in the back yard, children will marvel at the wonderful, useful tools and playthings they can create with natural objects. They’ll also learn about STEAM principles, campfire chemistry, why building with blocks is so powerful, and how mindfulness techniques can reduce stress.
Details
| Product Format: | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Brand: | Quarry Books |
| Grades: | 3-8 |
| ISBN: | 9780760362563 |
| Length in Inches: | 8.75 |
| Width in Inches: | 8.75 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.375 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 1.15 |
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