Award-winning authors Valarie Budayr and Marilyn Scott-Waters have co-created A Year in the Secret Garden to introduce the beloved children’s classic, The Secret Garden to a new generation of families. This guide uses over two hundred full color illustrations and photos to bring the magical story to life, with fascinating historical information, monthly gardening activities, easy-to-make recipes, and step-by-step crafts, designed to enchant readers of all ages. Each month your family will unlock the mysteries of a Secret Garden character, as well as have fun together creating the original crafts and activities based on the book.
A Year in the Secret Garden Projects Include:
12 Gardening Activities that will get your kids outside digging in the dirt and encouraging their imaginations to sprout and grow. Some of the fun includes:
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- Magic Carpets
- Planting Bulbs
- Old Man and the Spade Game
- Bringing in the Evergreen
- Ice Disks
- Garden in a Jar
- Seed Paper
- Seed Packets
- Plant Labels
- Hula Hoop Magic Circles
- Affirmation Stones
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12 Secret Garden Recipes based on events and scenes in the book including:
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- Curry Chicken
- Ploughman’s Lunch
- Hot Oat Cakes
- Toad in a Hole
- Parkin Cake
- Robin Cakes
- Tin Foil Breakfast
- Ladybug Sandwiches
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12 Secret Garden Crafts based on the book:
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- Rangoli
- Jump Ropes
- Unique Bird Feeders
- Wutherin’Wind Flags
- Oaten Pipes (flute)
- Nest making
- Dickon’s Felt Creatures
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Beautiful and Extraordinary Cutouts and Paper-crafts designed by Marilyn Scott-Waters:
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- Character cut outs
- Seed Packets & Plant Labels
- Paper Garden Model
- Birds
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Explore Edwardian England:
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- The Story of Misselwhaite Manor
- Learn Old British Money
- Jump Rope Rhymes
- Yorkshire phrase Book: Talk like Martha and Ben
- Victorian Family Life
- Complete Character Studies
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Over 120 pages, with 150 original color illustrations and 48 activities for your family and friends to enjoy, learn, discover and play with together. A Year In the Secret Garden is our opportunity to introduce new generations of families to the magic of this classic tale in a modern and innovative way that creates special learning and play times outside in nature. This book encourages families to step away from technology and into the kitchen, garden, reading nook and craft room.
An Added Bonus for both our tree and e-readers. Whether you purchase the print version or the e-version of A Year in the Secret Garden we have a 8.5 x 10 printable PDF poster of original artwork from A Year in the Secret Garden by the Toymaker herself, Marilyn Scott-Waters.
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