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1000 hours outside : activities to match screen time with green time /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : DK Publishing, 2022Description: 287 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780744063622
  • 0744063620
  • 9780241575826
  • 0241575826
Other title:
  • One thousand hours outside : activities to match screen time with green time
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 790.191 23
Summary: Did you know that the average American child spends 1,200 hours a year in front of a screen? And that outside play can boost children in every area of development? This book has everything you need to reset the balance and swap screen time for outdoor fun! 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, and inspiration you need to get outdoors with your family all year round.
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Standard Loan Coeur d'Alene Library Adult Nonfiction Coeur d'Alene Library Book 793 YURICH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 04/24/2024 50610023312254
Standard Loan Hayden Library Adult Nonfiction Harrison Library Book 790.19/YURICH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 In transit from Hayden Library to Coeur d'Alene Library since 05/09/2024 50610024163284 1
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Join the global movement and challenge your family to match screen time with outdoor time--with hundreds of fun, fresh-air ideas.

Did you know that the average American child spends 1,200 hours a year in front of a screen? And that outside play can boost children in every area of development? This book has everything you need to reset the balance and swap screen time for outdoor fun!

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, and inspiration you need to get outdoors with your family all year round.

Did you know that the average American child spends 1,200 hours a year in front of a screen? And that outside play can boost children in every area of development? This book has everything you need to reset the balance and swap screen time for outdoor fun! 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, and inspiration you need to get outdoors with your family all year round.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (4)
  • Chapter 1 Winter
  • Hot Chocolate Hike (8)
  • Salt Dough Shapes (10)
  • Snow Painting (12)
  • Invent a Constellation (14)
  • Ice Brick Tower (16)
  • Stained Ice Fort (18)
  • Winter Fire (20)
  • Snow Cake (22)
  • Winter Walk (24)
  • Eggshell Cress (26)
  • Beeswax Luminaries (28)
  • Ice Ornaments (30)
  • Make Some Music (32)
  • Cafe Play (34)
  • Snow Volcano (36)
  • Story Stones (38)
  • Frozen Bubbles (40)
  • Lantern (42)
  • Nighttime Hike (44)
  • Hoop Art (46)
  • Snow Angel (48)
  • Moon Cycles (50)
  • Bird Feed Shapes (52)
  • Feeding Birds (54)
  • Snowflake Study (56)
  • Mud Pies (58)
  • Painting Ice Sheets (60)
  • Decorate a Tree (62)
  • Frost Walk (64)
  • Fruit Feeder (66)
  • Snow Animals (68)
  • Snow Hot Tub (70)
  • Woodcraft (72)
  • Snow Lantern (74)
  • Chapter 2 Spring
  • Calendar of Firsts (78)
  • Flower Mandala (80)
  • Hunt for Animal Homes (82)
  • Color-changing Flowers (84)
  • Fairy Home (86)
  • Inside Outside (88)
  • Insects (90)
  • Flower Farming (92)
  • Sidewalk Art (94)
  • Tadpoles to Frogs (96)
  • Nature Tray (98)
  • Growing Tomatoes (100)
  • Shadow Play (102)
  • Stick Art (104)
  • Unique Tree Hunt (106)
  • Play with Gravity (108)
  • Jewelry Making (110)
  • Seesaw Balance (112)
  • Leaf Printing (114)
  • Nature Matching (116)
  • Flower Rainbow (118)
  • Reading Challenge (120)
  • Frame It! (122)
  • Cloud Gazing (124)
  • Hopscotch (126)
  • Wild Weaving (128)
  • Fairy Doors (130)
  • Flower Pressing (132)
  • Mud Play (134)
  • Discovering Salamanders (136)
  • Plant a Tree (138)
  • Pattern Spotting (140)
  • Ice Excavation (142)
  • Hiking (144)
  • Chapter 3 Summer
  • Frozen Flowers (148)
  • Suncatcher (150)
  • Butterfly Catching (152)
  • Vine Basket Weaving (154)
  • Pooh Sticks (156)
  • Barefoot Day (158)
  • Flower Sewing (160)
  • Sand Building (162)
  • Growing Carrots (164)
  • Water Play (166)
  • Sheet Painting (168)
  • Beanstalk Hideout (170)
  • Summer Sledding (172)
  • Reptiles (174)
  • Chalk Scenes (176)
  • Sand Burying (178)
  • Creeking (180)
  • Sensory Bin (182)
  • Hammocks (184)
  • Flower Art (186)
  • Tea Party Time (188)
  • Splatter Painting (190)
  • Beach Tournament (192)
  • Mud Pool (194)
  • Ephemeral Art (196)
  • Berry Picking (198)
  • Jam Making (200)
  • Compass Time (202)
  • Beach Art (204)
  • Heart Hunt (206)
  • Sunflower Dissection (208)
  • Tic-Tac-Toe (210)
  • Beach Cleanup (212)
  • Feet Painting (214)
  • Chapter 4 Fall
  • Petal-Stained Glass (218)
  • Blowing Bubbles (220)
  • Leaf Rainbow Art (222)
  • Pumpkin Vase (224)
  • Apple Time (226)
  • Animal Faces (228)
  • Nature Journaling (230)
  • Mushroom Hunt (232)
  • Stick Fort (234)
  • Egg Carton Scavenger Hunt (236)
  • Nature's Playground (238)
  • Leaf Crown (240)
  • Acorn Candles (242)
  • Follow the Leader (244)
  • Magnifying Glass (246)
  • Leaf Art (248)
  • Creepy Crawlies (250)
  • Rock Stacks (252)
  • Bug Hotel (254)
  • Bubble Art (256)
  • Leaf Wreath (258)
  • Rain Play (260)
  • Bird-Watching (262)
  • Kite Flying (264)
  • Wearable Wings (266)
  • Pumpkin Picking (268)
  • Leaf Masks (270)
  • Corn Husk Dolls (272)
  • Playground Hop (274)
  • Mushroom Art (276)
  • Nature Collecting (278)
  • Pumpkin Neighborhood (280)
  • Leaf Pile Games (282)
  • Leaf Rubbing (284)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Ginny Yurich is a Michigan-based, homeschooling mama of five kids, and she is the founder of 1000 Hours Outside, a global movement to help families match the average amount of time kids spend on screens each year with time spent outdoors. Ginny is a thought-leader in the world of nature-based play and its benefits. Ginny has a BS in Mathematics and a Masters Degree in Education from the University of Michigan. Find her online at 1000HoursOutside.com and join the movement on Instagram: @1000hoursoutside, Facebook: 1000 Hours Outside, and Twitter: @1000HoursOutside

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