Toad Cottages & Shooting Stars by Lovejoy, Sharon -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Preparing Camp Granny

A Room (or Drawer) of One’s Own Grandma’s Bag of Tricks “Mad Baskets” Dress-up Drawers Birth Trees Time Capsules Mud Pies Faerie Mailboxes Long-Distance Granny Bubbles at the Ready!

2 The Neighborhood Naturalist

Backyard Explorer Kit A Five-Senses Walkabout Home, Wild Home: Attracting Critters Creating a Hideout Bird Words Nature Scavenger Hunt Underwater Viewer Keeping Tracks Nighttime Explorations Moonlight & Eyeshine Firefly Lanterns Moon Walks Shooting Stars Campfire Stories

3 Kids in The Kitchen

Prep School Slippery Sliders Critter Cakes Fluffy Clouds Heidi Sandwich Summer Berry Soup Please Play with Your Food Super Snacks Faeries’ Tea Party Restaurant Night at Home Kids’ Salad Bar Party No-Bake Nests Dump Cake Making a Solar Oven Moon Pizzas Granny-ola

4 Kitchen Garbage Garden

Learning from Leftovers TLC for Plants Great Garbage Garden Plants Growing a Bean Tepee, Citrus Trees, Peanuts, and Pineapples Be a Pumpkin Parent Glass Act Potato Head Portrait Grow a Name Peek-a-boo Planters Ginger Hands

5 Kids in The Garden

Preparing Your Pots Quick-Stop Snack Pots: Snow Peas, Strawberries, Tomatoes, Buried Treasures Tater Tots Potato Volcanoes Listening to Pumpkins Ciao (Chow) Bella Spaghetti Squash Barrels, Buckets, and Bales Edible Flowers

6 Rainy Day Activities

Granny’s Magical Craft Box Art Lines Twisted, Turned & Tied Puppet Shows Wind Chimes Toad Cottages Rainsticks Tin Can Band Clay Beads Worm Hotel Making Floral Paper Nature’s Stained Glass Window Leaf Collages Memory Game Mother Nature’s Toy Chest Letters from the Heart

Appendix Index About the Author Copyright