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Toad Cottages & Shooting Stars: A Grandma's Bag of Tricks
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Toad Cottages & Shooting Stars: A Grandma's Bag of Tricks Paperback - 2010

by Sharon Lovejoy

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This seller has earned a 4.36 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
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Readers widely praised this as a warm, idea-packed guide that helps grandparents connect with children through nature, gardening, cooking, and crafts. They admired its inviting tone, vivid illustrations, and focus on creating welcoming spaces and hands-on exploration. Many said it’s just as useful for parents, aunts and uncles, teachers, and homeschoolers. While most activities feel simple and adaptable, some were seen as requiring extra time, money, or outdoor access. Overall, it’s viewed as a labor of love that fosters intergenerational bonding and a lasting appreciation for the outdoors.

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charming inspiring whimsical heartwarming idea-packed family-friendly beautifully illustrated accessible adaptable sometimes impractical

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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 outdoors--grow a container snacking garden, a pumpkin patch in a pot--and 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 sunshine--baking in a solar oven--and in the kitchen--what 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 Lovejoy--a grandmother of four and the author of two classic books of garden activities for grown-ups and kids, Sunflower Houses and Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots--Toad 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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  • Title Toad Cottages & Shooting Stars: A Grandma's Bag of Tricks
  • Author Sharon Lovejoy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Pages 205
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Workman Publishing, New York
  • Publication date 2010-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780761150435 / 0761150439
  • Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 8.1 x 0.5 in (20.57 x 20.57 x 1.27 cm)
  • Category Family / Parenting / Childbirth
  • Library of Congress subjects Gardening, Nature craft
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010278435
  • Dewey Decimal Code 635.083
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