Use this free printable project page to make your own mud pies. You can use leaves, flower petals, sand, or pebbles to decorate, just like Martin & Sylvia do in the story "Lemons and Mud".

In the *Martin & Sylvia: Saturdays!* story, “Spring Paddle Tour”, Martin has a fever and won’t be able to attend the annual Spring canoe tour.

Here is a fun and easy way to organize your stuffed animals. All you need is a length of ribbon (preferably the height of your room), several clothes pins, and a little loop on top to help secure it to your ceiling

Do you like making music? Here are directions on how to make a ‘shoe box guitar’.

In the Martin & Sylvia: Saturdays! story “Spring Seeing,” Martin and Sylvia take a nature walk in the woods behind their house. They bring paper and pencils, and as they see signs of spring, they make notes and draw pictures. You can take your own Spring Seeing walk, and use this page to make notes on what you find!

In the story, "Gift of Sweetness" Sylvia chose a branch from an old dear tree for a magic wand! She cut off the parts she didn’t want to use and then painted the wand. Use this printable to design your own and then try it out on a real branch!

Three fun ideas for stick forts! This printable shows kids how to make forts by weaving saplings around trees, using a large branch for a lean-to, and stacking bundles of sticks with rope. Color these pictures in and then try it yourself!

While Martin & Sylvia are waiting for their dinner in a French restaurant in the story “Can’t Wait to Wait,” Mr. Weber suggests the children play a drawing game where each person draws only part of the figure. One draws the head, another the body, another the legs and the fourth draws the feet. We've created a printable for this fun activity!

Martin and Sylvia learn a creative way to “write” thank you notes in the *Martin & Sylvia: Saturdays!* story “Picture Thank You’s”. They draw pictures to represent the words in the card, and create a “key” so that the thank you note can be decoded! It’s fun for the creator and the reader.

This printable teaches kids to collect dried grass and bark and other soft natural materials to make little mouse houses next to stumps and big rocks.