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Memory Match — Backyard Friends
Flip the cards and find matching pairs of Tootie's backyard wildlife friends. How fast can you match them all?
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Indoors Activities
Screen-time that's actually about the backyard! Play games, do crafts, print activities, and explore nature — all from your screen.
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Backyard Banquet
Help Tootie & Yoshi find the right foods for 25 North Louisiana wildlife species across three difficulty levels!
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Grandma’s Garden Helpers
Sort the good bugs from the bad ones and help Grandma Rose, Tootie & Yoshi keep the garden thriving!
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Tootie’s Toy Sort
Drag and drop 135+ North Louisiana species into the right habitats across 10 progressive levels!
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Backyard Crossword
Use nature clues to fill in the squares. How many backyard words do you know?
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Wildlife Word Search
Find all the hidden wildlife words lurking in the grid!
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Backyard Maze
Guide Tuffy the Titmouse through the backyard maze to find the feeder!
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Backyard Coloring Book
Color your favorite backyard friends — Tootie, Yoshi, Gee the Anole, and more!
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Flower Pounding (Hapa Zome)
Transfer living color from fresh flowers directly onto fabric by pounding them — a Japanese natural dyeing technique that turns your garden into an art supply store.
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Nature Sun-Catchers
Seal petals, leaves, and seeds in contact paper, frame them in cardboard, and hang in a window. The Louisiana sun turns your backyard finds into stained glass.
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Mud Painting
Mix Louisiana dirt and water to make natural earth paint, then decorate logs, rocks, and clay pots. The next rain erases it — leaving a blank canvas for next time.
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Solar Crayon Recycler
Build a foil-lined solar oven from a shoebox and use the Louisiana sun to melt broken crayons into brand-new rainbow-swirl crayons.