Cool Outdoor Activities makes the great outdoors fun and exciting. Make a marvelous mini kite or bury a time capsule. Create a giant tic-tac-toe board or a twist-it game in the grass. This book is full of easy-to-follow steps and bright photography for every activity. Plus, it's written just for kids! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Checkerboard Library. Includes glossary.

Get out! -- What's so great about the great outdoors? -- You gotta lighten up! -- The war on cabin fever -- Materials -- Backyard twist-it -- Giant Tic-tac-Toe -- Bury a time capsule -- Water challenge -- Stone Hopscotch -- Sponge Blaster -- Marvelous mini kite -- How great is the great outdoors? -- Glossary -- Websites -- Index.