Daniel C. Beard's great passion was for making boys and girls feel at home in nature, allowing them to experience its wonders while fostering their sense of self-sufficiency and independence. In these pages, Beard suggests any number of projects, plans, and schemes to entertain those whose travels take them into open field and forest and who want to know how to build everything from kites and birdhouses to snow houses and snowmen. Outdoor activities for all!

"Originally published in 1906 by Charles Scribner's Sons"--Title page verso.

Spring. How to make a tailless Filipino -- Airships, broom-straw flying machines and kites -- how to make a herbarium -- How to plant quail -- Houses for useful birds -- How to make flying cages -- How to make a land and water aquarium and how to make and stock a vivarium -- How to build a fire engine -- Summer. How to make a diving cart, poles, slings and chump's rafts for bathers -- How to build a cheap boat -- How to cross a stream on a log -- How to make a bridge for swift waters -- How to build substantial piers and bridges at your camp or summer home -- Gateways for permanent camps or country houses -- How to build indoor play houses, secret castles, and how to make mysterious treasure chests -- How to camp out in your back yard -- How to make a real hunter's clothes and moccasins -- How to build beaver-mat huts, camps and cots, fagot houses, roads and fences --Autumn. Every-day woodcraft for every-day people -- Camp cooking and how to build an altar camp stove and a clay oven -- How to keep game and fish in camp -- How to pack and unpack in the woods -- Throwing the squaw hitch -- How to pack a pack horse and how to throw the diamond hitch -- How to pack a dog and how to make the pack saddle -- Making difficult camps over the water or on a swamp -- How to make jack-knife door latches -- How to build a real log house -- How to build and frunish a surprise den in a modern house -- Winter. Some new winter camps, and how to build them and heat them -- How to make snow house and snow men -- How to put on snow shoes -- How to build a jumper, or humpdurgin, and a gummer, in the woods -- How to make a skiboggan, a barrel-stave toboggan, and a toboggan-bob -- How to make plain sleds and bob-sleighs -- The Van Kleeck bob -- How to steer a bob sled.