The Roots of a Wild Child Chapter 1: Forts and Other Hideaways Scrounging for Unexpected Building Materials Forts & Playhouses Natural Burrows Packing-Material Tepee Plants That Make Great Places to Hide Build a Straw Bale Fort Plant a Living Willow Hideaway Cardboard Castles A Fort in Winter Tunnels The Simple Leaf Pile Make a Loom Tent Badger Holes Unexpected Sandboxes Make a Map of Your Neighborhood Hiding Play Materials Chapter 2: Places for Tinkering Create a Mud Lab Marble Racetrack Soda & Mentos Eruptions Setting Booby Traps Make a Slingshot Build a Catapult Protect Your Toys from Pirates Create a Wall of Noise DIY Rube Goldberg Device Bored? No Way! Chapter 3: Naturally Wild Miniature Worlds Grow a Tiny Fruit Tree Natural Paints & Dyes Grow Your Own Snacks Snacks to Identify & Forage Dig Your Own Clay Mown Labyrinth Logs & Stumps Seedo Torpedoes Drums Chapter 4: Setting Up Camp Backyard Camping (Fake) Neighborhood Lore Make a Hand-Washing Station Create an Outdoor Shower Set Up an Outdoor Toilet Make a Fire Pit Hobo Camp Food & Old-Timey Cooking Outdoor Stages for Performances or Fomenting a Rebellion Chapter 5: Sidewalks, Fences, and Driveways a.k.a. Places to Draw Graffiti on Fences Fun on the Driveway Chalk Outlines Exploding Sidewalk Chalk Chapter 6: Adventure Course Swing It! Make Your Own Slip 'N Slide Tough Lil' Mudders Make Your Own Stilts Red Yarn Laser Climb Cardboard Armor Chapter 7: Water, Bubbles, and Goo Sprinkler Setups Make a Water Blob Super Soaker! Baby Pool Fun Pinata Full of Water Balloons Make Giant Bubbles Tyvek Suit Full of Water Balloons Eggshell Paint Bombs Chapter 8: It Ain't Over Yet Old-Timey Yard Games Turn Dolls into Mummies Duct Tape Zombies Glow Stick Hunt Flashlight Tag Super Secret Section *FOR PARENTS ONLY!*.
Backyard Adventure : Get Messy, Get Wet, Build Cool Things, and Have Tons of Wild Fun! 51 Free-Play Activities