Contents

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Introduction

1 Preparing Camp Granny

image A Room (or Drawer) of One’s Own

image Grandma’s Bag of Tricks

image “Mad Baskets”

image Dress-up Drawers

image Birth Trees

image Time Capsules

image Mud Pies

image Faerie Mailboxes

image Long-Distance Granny

image Bubbles at the Ready!

2 The Neighborhood Naturalist

image Backyard Explorer Kit

image A Five-Senses Walkabout

image Home, Wild Home: Attracting Critters

image Creating a Hideout

image Bird Words

image Nature Scavenger Hunt

image Underwater Viewer

image Keeping Tracks

image Nighttime Explorations

image Moonlight & Eyeshine

image Firefly Lanterns

image Moon Walks

image Shooting Stars

image Campfire Stories

3 Kids in the Kitchen

image Prep School

image Slippery Sliders

image Critter Cakes

image Fluffy Clouds

image Heidi Sandwich

image Summer Berry Soup

image Please Play with Your Food

image Super Snacks

image Faeries’ Tea Party

image Restaurant Night at Home

image Kids’ Salad Bar Party

image No-Bake Nests

image Dump Cake

image Making a Solar Oven

image Moon Pizzas

image Granny-ola

4 Kitchen Garbage Garden

image Learning from Leftovers

image TLC for Plants

image Great Garbage Garden Plants

image Growing a Bean Tepee, Citrus Trees, Peanuts, and Pineapples

image Be a Pumpkin Parent

image Glass Act

image Potato Head Portrait

image Grow a Name

image Peek-a-boo Planters

image Ginger Hands

5 Kids in the Garden

image Preparing Your Pots

image Quick-Stop Snack Pots: Snow Peas, Strawberries, Tomatoes, Buried Treasures

image Tater Tots

image Potato Volcanoes

image Listening to Pumpkins

image Ciao (Chow) Bella

image Spaghetti Squash

image Barrels, Buckets, and Bales

image Edible Flowers

6 Rainy Day Activities

image Granny’s Magical Craft Box

image Art Lines

image Twisted, Turned & Tied

image Puppet Shows

image Wind Chimes

image Toad Cottages

image Rainsticks

image Tin Can Band

image Clay Beads

image Worm Hotel

image Making Floral Paper

image Nature’s Stained Glass Window

image Leaf Collages

image Memory Game

image Mother Nature’s Toy Chest

image Letters from the Heart

Appendix

Index