Nature Crafts for Kids

If you'd rather be outdoors than anyplace else, if you like to bring home cones and leaves and rocks but never know what to do with them, then Nature Crafts for Kids is for you.

Organized by season, the more than 50 outdoor projects will show you how to learn by doing, as well as by looking and reading. You'll dig for clay in a creek bank, make pinch pots just as Native Americans did hundreds of years ago, and build a sawdust kiln that really works.

There's even an ant house and a worm farm, candles sculpted in sand, a "stained glass" project made from autumn leaves and a cement birdbath.

And while you are doing each project, you'll discover fascinating facts about how nature works. Not only will you make a wind vane, but you'll discover what the wind does for our planet.