Our very first stamp: a rain shower at the bridge, a jungle documentary, seed-bead art — and a real treasure chest buried on our own campus.
Passports stamped, rain shower at the bridge.
50 minutes deep inside the unseen Amazon.
Trivia battle — winners crack the first coconut.
Beans pressed into clay, Amazonian seed-art style.
Presenting what we learned from the film.
Riddle scrolls, hidden key, chest buried by the workshop.
Everyone together for the big crack-open.
Skewers, coconut ceremony — then The Jungle Book.
Every adventure adds a new stamp — our passports are just getting started.
Trees release water vapor that forms clouds — the Amazon waters itself. We felt our own version at the bridge!
Forest floor, understory, canopy, emergent — most life happens up in the canopy.
Howler monkeys can be heard 3 miles away, and piranhas earn their reputation.
The Amazon shapes weather and stores carbon for the whole Earth — which is why explorers everywhere care about protecting it.
Explorers also practiced reading maps and decoding riddles, mixed-age teamwork, patient hands-on craftsmanship, and writing — our Adventure Book Keepers recorded the day's best facts for future explorers.
The passport booklet we mailed to you (extras for guests: fold paper + staple), stickers — and a spray-bottle rain shower on landing.
Lights down, blanket fort up. Link near the end of this book.
8–10 questions from the film, in teams — winner cracks the coconut.
Beans pressed into air-dry clay — full how-to a few pages ahead.
Each explorer presents one rainforest animal — one fact, one drawing, big applause.
Full how-to near the end of this book.
Sock, hammer, safety glasses, wonder.
Skewers, rice, tropical fruit platter, coconut ceremony.
Deep in your own jungle.
Folded paper + stapler for passports, stickers, a spray bottle for the rain.
Air-dry clay (Crayola 5 lb bucket) and a 16-bean variety mix — one bag holds every mosaic color: black, red, pinto, lentils, split peas.
A small wooden treasure chest, little treasures, an old key, paper and pens. Geodes: Nat Geo 15-geode kit (goggles included) or a budget 25-pack of Moroccan geodes. Plus an old sock, hammer, safety glasses.
A rainforest backdrop (20×10 ft) on one wall, every houseplant you own gathered together, green lighting if you have a smart bulb — and a tropical fruit centerpiece (see the feast page).
A palm-sized pancake of air-dry clay on a paper plate, about as thick as your finger — or go 3D: snakes, faces, little pots all work.
Lightly draw the design first — a sun, a snake, a jaguar face, a spiral.
Little bowls by color from the bean mix. This is half the fun.
Push each bean about halfway in so it locks when the clay dries. Work from the middle out.
24–48 hours flat (desert sun speeds it up!). Indigenous Amazonian seed art has worked this way for generations.
Cube 1½ lb chicken thighs. Toss 20 min in olive oil, lime juice, 2 minced garlic cloves, 1 tsp cumin, salt. Thread with bell pepper and pineapple. Broil 12–14 min, turning once, until cooked through (165°F). Kids build, grown-ups broil.
1 cup rice to 1½ cups water. Rinse, boil, cover on low 15 min, rest 10 min off heat — no peeking.
Pile it like the forest floor: pineapple (leave the crown on for drama), bananas, mango, melon slices, and whole coconuts as centerpieces. Blend frozen mango + banana for canopy smoothie bowls.
Twist a screwdriver into two of the coconut's "eyes," drain the water into cups to taste, then tap around the middle with a hammer until it splits. Trivia winners go first!
Fill the chest with geodes and trinkets. Hide it well — under a bush, in the sandbox, buried under a towel of dirt.
Tape a key somewhere sneaky. No key, no treasure — it doubles the adventure.
A hand-drawn map with an ✕, slightly mysterious. Tea-stain the paper if you're feeling fancy.
Clue one leads to the key, clue two to the ✕. Like: "Where water tumbles, cool and free — look under the roof to find the key."
Gate each clue behind three trivia answers. Golden rule: the chest comes back unopened — everyone gathers for the reveal.
The film we watched at school — watch it free on YouTube.
Our closing film — every Adventure Day ends with a movie, and deep in the jungle with Mowgli and Baloo was the only way this one could end.
What is the canopy? · Which monkey can be heard 3 miles away? · Does the Amazon make its own rain? · Name one way people live in the rainforest.
Every Wednesday, our passports take us somewhere new — and the next stamp is already waiting…
Send us a photo if you go on the adventure at home — we'd love to stamp it into our Adventure Book.