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TOAD COTTAGES AND SHOOTING STARS
By: Sharon Lovejoy
Grandma's Bag of Tricks
Workman Publishing Company
February 2010
On Sale: February 4, 2010
205 pages
ISBN: 0761150439
EAN: 9780761150435
Paperback
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Make leaf rubbings, learn the neighborhood bird songs together, turn an aquarium into a worm hotel, create a firefly lantern. There are garden projects, both for the outdoorsโgrow a container snacking garden, a pumpkin patch in a potโand the indoors, i.e., how to use something called "indoor garbage gardens" to grow pineapple tops, sweet potato vines, peanuts, and more. Cooking projects, both in the sunshineโbaking in a solar ovenโand in the kitchenโwhat child will ever forget the time the two of you made Potato Volcanoes with Lava? And lots of rainy-day activities for times when nature's in a cranky mood. Created by Sharon Lovejoyโa grandmother of four and the author of two classic books of garden activities for grown-ups and kids, Sunflower Houses and Roots, Shoots, Buckets & BootsโToad Cottages and Shooting Stars is an ecologically inspired guide that combines more than 130 green activities with timeless grandparenting advice. Illustrated with Lovejoy's distinctive, delicate watercolors, it's an inventive resource for grandmother and grandchild to connect with each other through nature. It is the book to make sure an afternoon, a day, or a weekend turns into a memory that lasts forever.
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