Provides advice for parents and caregivers on encouraging children to engage in and enjoy healthy, safe outdoor activities, and suggests games, crafts, and other fun things to do in each season and after dark.

"Challenge your family to spend 1,000 hours outside this year with this collection of games, crafts, and activities, organized by season to help you find something you can do every day. Play leaf pile games, take a hot chocolate hike, make corn husk dolls, go on an animal home hunt, and much more with hundreds of ideas for all ages, abilities, and family types. No matter how busy you are, this book gives you all the ideas, photos, activity instructions,...

Tornio helps you turn every outdoor outing into a scavenger hunt. Geared toward families with kids ages 4-10, and covering a variety of locations, these lists of things to find can turn any time spent outdoors into an opportunity to engage your family on a whole new level. -- adapted from back cover Introduction -- Search for animals -- Check out the neighborhood -- Have a backyard adventure -- Explore the wild -- Discover nature's palette -- Take...

Access to technology has created a generation of children who are more plugged in than ever before-often with negative consequences. But there is a solution. Unrestricted outdoor play helps reduce stress, improve health, and enhance creativity, learning, and attention span. In Nature Play at Home, Nancy Striniste gives you the tools you need to make outdoor adventures possible in your own backyard. With hundreds of inspiring ideas and illustrated,...

You don't need to live near a forest or have a huge garden to have a go at these projects - the activities and crafts in this book can be done on-the-go, in your neighbourhood, or at your local park. Discover the magic of the outdoors and get hands-on with activities that are perfectly suited for young children, as you collect treasure on a nature walk, learn about different types of clouds, create wild art, whittle a magic wand from a stick, and...

The Happy Camper demonstrates how to get the most from your camping experience by showing you how to plan your trip properly, what to pack, select a campsite, read a compass, ward off unwanted wildlife and administer first aid among other topics.

Originally published in 1942, this Maine classic offers instruction on everything from packing a canoe to stalking a bear.

A comprehensive guide with detailed descriptions and photos of Oil Creek State Park Multi-Use Trail, Samuel Justice Trail, Sandy Creek Trail, and Two Mile Run County Park.