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The Mudpies Book
of Boredom Busters

Use boredom as a fuel to adventure! In this fourth book of the popular Mudpies series, Nancy Blakey takes on that grouchy beast, boredom, and wrestles it to the mat. Kids can concoct ironed cheese sandwiches, newspaper shoes, and taters in a tire. These inexpensive, inspired activities will help kids, parents, and teachers turn the sleepy lull of boredom into the most inventive time of day.

Review:

“For kids 2 to 12 and their keepers, this is an inspiring collection of activities in four chapters: things to do outside, on rainy days, in the kitchen, and on road trips. Some of the projects are long-term, like planting potatoes, and others are more immediately accomplished, but provide hours of purposeful play.

Blakey reminds us in her introduction--itself an exquisite essay on the creativity that stems from childhood boredom--that the kids won’t remember that we got the dishes done, but whether we said yes to a creative mess. The frog cupcakes were a spectacular success with my home team, and we plan to try the painted animal crackers soon.”

Wingate Packard
Seattle Times