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"Perfect for barbecues, stay-cations, family reunions, game nights, block parties, and more, DIY Backyard Games offers 13 step-by-step easy woodworking and DIY projects to make your own lawn games! Approachable for anyone to accomplish, no matter your experience or skill level, make everything from DIY cornhole and giant Jenga to Yahtzee, Memory, Twister, and more! Use affordable materials and follow simple, step-by-step instructions with coordinating...
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80 pages : colour illustrations, ; 27 cm
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Great ideas for kids to have fun outdoors. Encourage and inspire them through positive outdoor experiences, engaging with nature through art and play. Discover the animals and insects, build habitats and homes and see how they live. See how awesome it can be and create simple, wonderful pieces of art from materials that nature provides us with. Turn a walk into play, use the sun, observe trees and engage the imagination, it's all for free and its...
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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,...
6) Quidditch
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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This title introduces young sports fans to Quidditch, introducing the sport's history, rules, equipment, and why more and more athletes love playing it. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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144 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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The fun begins at home with this book full of start-to-finish DIY play structures! It covers playsets, games, and backyard structures that your kids will love, and includes a thorough section on building kid's projects safely. From sandboxes to skateboard ramps, you'll find projects for different skill levels, from beginner to advanced intermediate. -- adapted from back cover.
9) NOLS Games
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Playing games while on courses is a part of the NOLS life, and course leaders are great resources for games that work-those that are popular and are used year after year. This book contains 100 tried-and-true, field-tested games collected from and vetted by NOLS instructors: getting-to-know-you games, name games, team games for encouraging cooperation and leadership, games on the trail and in the water, and brain/creative/word games.
10) On a Snowy Day
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Learn what you can build outdoors on a snowy day! The book utilizes curriculum-based text to get children comfortable with reading, and uses the Whole Language approach to literacy, a combination of sight words and repetition builds recognition and confidence. Bold, colorful photographs correlate directly to text to help guide readers through the book.
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The Playing Outside series utilizes curriculum-based text to get children comfortable...
11) On a Windy Day
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Learn about fun things you can play with on a windy day! The book utilizes curriculum-based text to get children comfortable with reading, and uses the Whole Language approach to literacy, a combination of sight words and repetition builds recognition and confidence. Bold, colorful photographs correlate directly to text to help guide readers through the book.
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The Playing Outside series utilizes curriculum-based text to get children...
12) On a Rainy Day
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Learn about fun things to do outdoors on a rainy day! The book utilizes curriculum-based text to get children comfortable with reading, and uses the Whole Language approach to literacy, a combination of sight words and repetition builds recognition and confidence. Bold, colorful photographs correlate directly to text to help guide readers through the book.
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The Playing Outside series utilizes curriculum-based text to get children...
13) On a Sunny Day
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Learn about fun things you can do on a sunny day! The book utilizes curriculum-based text to get children comfortable with reading, and uses the Whole Language approach to literacy, a combination of sight words and repetition builds recognition and confidence. Bold, colorful photographs correlate directly to text to help guide readers through the book.
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The Playing Outside series utilizes curriculum-based text to get children comfortable...
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You are about to embark on a dangerous adventure. With this game in a book, use the pop-out Survival Spinner to learn your fate as you face peril after peril in a wild, rugged landscape.
You become lost in the mountains after an emergency landing. Among the snowy peaks, you are at risk from dangers including falling victim to hypothermia, being buried by an avalanche, or stumbling into a deep crevasse. In your backpack, you have a sleeping bag,...
16) Training Course
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Training Course guides students as they conceive and set up their own training course for their friends and community. The considerate text includes easy-to-follow lists and will hold the readers' interest, allowing for successful mastery and comprehension. Written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience, these books maintain a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. A table of contents,...
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Cunning plots, heroic adventures, harrowing conquests... there's no end to the possibilities.
Eldarlands LARP is a fantasy based live-action role-playing game in which the players create and become their characters, driving the story through conflict and roleplay. Within these pages, you'll find everything you need to create and advance a character, build safe weaponry and armor, and learn the rules of combat.
If you've picked up this book, one can...
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Boost preschool skills with fun outdoor activities for kids 3 to 5
Kids learn best through play, and what better place to play than the great outdoors? This preschool activity book delivers hands-on projects that are easy to set up outside and inspire creative thinking. Little ones will strengthen their skills in letters, numbers, social development, and more with this standout among outdoor books. Supplement preschool learning with engaging activities...
19) Scavenger Hunt
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Scavenger Hunt guides students as they conceive and set up their own scavenger hunt for their friends and community. The considerate text includes easy-to-follow lists and will hold the readers' interest, allowing for successful mastery and comprehension. Written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience, these books maintain a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. A table of contents,...
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