Sunny Day Scavenger Hunt
Sunny Day Scavenger Hunt is a Scholastic book written for the WellieWishers line.
This book recaps the animated episode "Coloriffic Scavenger Hunt".
Characters
Plot
Emerson stomps through puddles in the garden as it's raining, singing a made up song as she does so. Ashlyn calls out for her to join the others. As she joins them, it stops raining. Emerson is disappointed as the sun will dry up the puddles. Camille it's okay because rainy days that turn sunny are her favorite and points out the bright colors of the garden. Ashlyn says this gives her an idea--they should have a sunny day scavenger hunt to celebrate. Each of them will pick a color and whoever finds the most things that color in the garden will win. Kendall says it's terrific and Emerson jokes that it's coloriffic, making the others laugh.
Camille decides to keep score and writes down each girl's colors. She picks blue for water (where mermaids live). Emerson picks yellow like her rubber chicken, Kendall chooses red like her wheelbarrow, and Willa picks brown for squirrels before asking Ashlyn what color she wants. Ashlyn picks orange like her favorite marmalade--then says that finding colors is her specialty so she'll win. The others line up and Camille counts slowly until Ashlyn prods her, then says go and the girls dart off to find their colors.
Camille says she sees two blue things already--her shirt and the stripe on her skirt. Ashlyn frowns and says they don't count since Camille's supposed to find colors in the garden. Camille states she's in the garden and marks two lines for herself. Emerson finds a yellow daffodil in the flower patch and Willa counts the stick as brown for herself. Kendall soon finds a red strawberry and shows it off, but holds it too tight and squishes it. She asks if it still counts and Camille says yes.
Camille says that everyone is doing great--almost everyone. Ashlyn, upset, says they picked easy colors and there's bound to be something orange around and she'll get a point soon enough, so they should all keep hunting.
The girls look around the Garden Theater Stage, and Ashlyn digs in the chest, pulling out a blue wig, red scarf, and yellow scarf. These are points for Camille, Kendall, and Emerson, but not her. They look by the big tree where Willa has found many brown things--squirrels, the tree, and the mud which is fun to jump in. She does so, and splatters Ashlyn, who says the mud is also messy. She then gets an idea for where to find orange things and tells Camille to follow her. They run to the vegetable garden--to find Carrot has eaten the last carrot. Ashlyn, frustrated, says this is the worst. Kendall soon walks by with her wheelbarrow, full of red things. Ashlyn says it's not fair that everyone is finding stuff with their color but her. Camille says Ashlyn'll find something soon. Ashlyn points and says that's easy for Camille to say, as she has a lot of points. Ashlyn keeps looking around but sees things in red, yellow, blue, and brown--but not orange. Everyone else is earning points and she's going to lose.
Ashlyn fusses that she's done, doesn't want to play anymore, and rips the page out of the scorepad. Camille asks what's wrong and thought they were all having fun. Ashlyn says that even though the scavenger hunt was her idea, she's not finding anything orange--and she told everyone she was the best at finding colors, so what will they think? Camille kindly says they'll think she needs help searching and calls the others over, explaining what's happening. Emerson says they'll help her find something orange and Kendall says they can go on an orange-erific scavenger hunt. Ashlyn thanks them and apologizes for tearing up the book. Camille says to forget about the book and Willa says to forget about the score and they should just have fun--which Ashlyn likes.
The girls start searching again. There's no orange things by the garden gate, but there's mud puddles to jump in. The playhouse has nothing orange but there are puppets so they put on a quick show. At the Garden Theater Stage they still don't find anything orange, so they sing a silly song about it. They end up back where they started, still unable to find something orange. Willa can't believe it, but Ashlyn says it's okay--she had fun. Suddenly Camille points at the sky and points out something that had orange--a rainbow! Kendall says it's coloriffic and they found something orange finally. Ashlyn says it's also red, yellow, green, blue, and purple--all their colors.
The girls take a moment to admire the rainbow before they go back to playing again. They agree that the day has been wonderful and the scavenger hunt was a success--not because anyone won, but because they all had fun playing together.
Activities
The book includes a sheet of stickers.