Forest Magic for Kids

Your enchanted guide to 50 magical activities for everything from finding hidden flower fairies in your own backyard and making a special wizard staff to creating a tiny woodland village and making your own forest potions. "Science facts readily interweave with a smattering of folklore as the text and charming illustrations encourage kids to charge up their imaginations and get outside. The spirits of scientific inquiry and old-fashioned wonder coexist happily here and will delight magic-minded children. "-Booklist. "A delightful outdoor handbook to ignite curiosity and a passion for nature, this is a great resource for nature units as well as hands-on activities to bring a creative writing program to life. "-School Library Journal. Come discover the wild magic tucked into the nooks and crannies of forests, thickets, and meadows. Search for fairy dusted glow-in-the-dark mushrooms. Find secret worlds hidden in trees and uncover the tunnels, trails, and dens of gnomes and trolls, and mice and moles. Learn to listen to the forest, make sun-warmed pine tea, and wear an evergreen crown to an elf picnic. Look inside to learn how to:. Keep a secret notebook filled with maps, notes, and pockets for all your discoveries. Go on a quest for wild treasures. Follow a queen bumblebee to her castle. Make your own forest teas and potions. Become best friends with a tree. Create tiny gnomes and build cozy gnome homes. Seek where mushrooms grow after a fairy dance. Carve a walking stick wizard staff. Build your own hidden forest fort.