Forest Magic for Kids

How to Find Fairies, Make a Secret Fort, and Cook Up an Elfin Picnic

By Susie Spikol

Your enchanted guide to 50+ magical activities for everything from finding hidden flower fairies in your own backyard and making a special wizard staff to creating a tiny woodland village and making your own forest potions.

Come discover the wild magic tucked into the nooks and crannies of forests, thickets, and meadows. Search for fairy dusted glow-in-the-dark mushrooms. Find secret worlds hidden in trees and uncover the tunnels, trails, and dens of gnomes and trolls, and mice and moles. Learn to listen to the forest, make sun-warmed pine tea, and wear an evergreen crown to an elf picnic.

Look inside to learn how to:

  • Keep a secret notebook filled with maps, notes, and pockets for all your discoveries
  • Go on a quest for wild treasures
  • Follow a queen bumblebee to her castle
  • Make your own forest teas and potions
  • Become best friends with a tree
  • Create tiny gnomes and build cozy gnome homes
  • Seek where mushrooms grow after a fairy dance
  • Carve a walking stick wizard staff
  • Build your own hidden forest fort
In Stock
$29.99 RRP
ISBN
9781423665533
Publish date
01 April 2025
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Page count
144
Weight
604 grams
Dimensions
222.25 x 165.1 mm

About the author

Susie Spikol is a naturalist at the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock, New Hampshire. A lifelong animal lover, Susie now helps people of all ages connect with the natural world. She is the author of The Animal Adventurer’s Guide (Roost Books, 2002). You can find her at www.susiespikol.com.

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