Packed with all kinds of exciting outdoor activities for children and the  whole family, to encourage awareness of the natural  world and self-sufficiency  skills – and to show how much fun it is to explore nature.

The activities include: tracking skills; wildlife spotting; foraging for  wild food and cooking outdoors; how to light a fire safely  (with  adult supervision); stargazing, including star maps; outdoor games; nature  chase; how to mimic birdsong; how to  make whistles and peashooters; how to make  plaster-casts of animal tracks, nature collections and art from nature finds.  With full-page pictures, vignettes, captions and a glossary, this is the  book you need when you go out in the park or  countryside.