Scouting And Survival
The Library of Work and Play
Posted in Elementary, Health, High School, Hobbies and Crafts, Home Economics, Home School Creative Commons Resources, Middle School, Public Domain, Scouting And Survival on March 24, 2015
Hobbies and Life Skills for Children Here we have an entire library, with a guide, of useful books to teach children skills and hobbies they will use for a lifetime. The Library of Work and Play contains 9 volumes, not including the guide and index. These could be used as a guide for everything from Read More »
Tracks and Tracking
Posted in Animals, Elementary, High School, Middle School, Public Domain, Scouting And Survival on November 1, 2014
The footprints in the featured image are badger tracks! All good hunters, campers, and scouts know the tracks of common animals! This free ebook is written at an upper-elementary level and includes plenty of illustrations of tracks and the animals that make them. It is generally understood that a track means the imprint left on Read More »
On The Trail: An Outdoor Book For Girls
Posted in High School, Hobbies and Crafts, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Scouting And Survival, Upper Elementary on October 8, 2012
Why do boys get to have all the fun? On The Trail is a book about forestry and survival that is just for girls! Great illustrations show how to make shelters, track animals, read the constellations, and much more. Download On The Trail from archive.org.
Home Occupations for Boys and Girls
Posted in Art, Hobbies and Crafts, Public Domain, Scouting And Survival on May 15, 2012
A perusal of this little volume will show that it is far from exhaustive of the topics treated. It is largely a book of suggestion. If it stimulates the child to new investigations and experiments along similar lines; if it reinforces the spirit of brotherly kindness in the home; or if it helps to solve Read More »
Wilderness Ways
Posted in American History, Animals, Literature, Nature Studies, Public Domain, Reading, Scouting And Survival on March 1, 2012
The following sketches. . .are the result of many years of personal observation in the woods and fields. They are studies of animals, pure and simple, not of animals with human motives and imaginations. Eight compelling stories of wilderness creatures by naturalist William J. Long. Each story is written so as to give children an Read More »
