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• Math Games with Dice

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 10:30 in math games, math activities, multiplication games, learning to count, kids’ activities, addition and subtraction games, child inventing, exponents for kids, fun board games, fun mathematics, games with dice, get there by four math

  One of the simplest ways to improve math skills is to play games with dice. Kids love to roll dice because of the association with fun board games. That makes it all too easy to associate mathematics with fun activities. Best of all, the games can...

• Word Association with Kids

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 10:21 in thinking outside the box, play with words, kids activity, vocabulary game, parents stress, rhyming games, child's vocabulary, kids’ activities, childs full attention, contiguous use of language, how to play word association, less than greater than

  Have you ever played word association with your child? Most kids will eagerly participate because it’s new and interesting and they receive lots of attention during play. Parents like the activity because it’s stress free and it offers ...

• Kids’ Art: Fun with Circles

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 16:52 in balloon art, kids' art projects, circle art project, drawing balloons, kids draw a circle, kids representational art, open and closed composition, open vs closed composition, practice drawing circles, scribbling back and forth, teaching kids open vs closed composition, uninhibited expression

  There’s something satisfying about scribbling back and forth. It’s completely uninhibited expression. Beyond this gesture, one of the first formal structures that kids draw is a circle or loop. Drawing circles opens up the world of rep...

• Fine Motor Skills Games with Spaghetti

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 09:03 in kids activities, child focus, fine motor skills, child imagination, old fashion fun, kids’ activities, activities with spaghetti, child attention span, child explore, fun games to play with kids, games with spaghetti, improving fine motor skills

  Improving fine motor skills is easy when your child is having fun trying to score points. Here’s an activity that runs on imagination and allows you to explore new variations each time you play. It’s easy to set up and only requires a f...

• Penny Games

  Posted on Sunday September 13th, 2009 at 09:50 in around the house activities, old fashion games, childs attention, old fashioned games, kids’ activities, activities with spaghetti sticks, child tinkering, games to play with pennies, games with wrapping paper tube, how to make a penny launcher, make a ramp, penny games to play

  These old fashioned penny games are wholesome in nature and simple to play. They use an easy to make penny launcher that you assemble with your child. The launcher only takes about a minute to make, and requires nothing more than things you already...

• Empty Nester

  Posted on Saturday August 29th, 2009 at 10:02 in empty nesters, story books, empty nester, parent strategies, share a story, becoming an empty nester, child in thought, child pretend, child’sperspective, constant communication, pretend to be an airplane, read the same book

  Part of becoming an empty nester goes well beyond the empty house. It’s the feeling that it all went by too fast, it’s gone, and there’s nothing you can do about it....

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