How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself: A Timeless Activity Guide to Self-Reliant Play and Joyful Solitude

by Robert Paul Smith

Book Overview

Promoting free-range imagination, hands-on ingenuity, and independent play, Robert Smith's timeless activity guide reminds parents and children alike that making one's own fun is the best way to avoid boredom. With easy-to-follow, illustrated directions to hacking household objects into toys and using nature to invent mischievous contraptions, this is a handbook that inspires creative play. From indoor boomerangs, pin pianos, umbrella bow and arrows,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982053959
• ISBN13: 9780982053959
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7