There are only a few kids who love to reading books. Most of the kids find it boring. People find reading books boring because they lack imagination. Kids have the power of creative visualization. Still, they don’t like reading books. Their love for games and fun activities overweighs their visualization and imagination required for reading books. However, education is necessary. Problem-solving, social, leadership and all necessary skills are developed through education. It shapes their futures. So, if you cannot educate with books, let them learn through what they love to do. Subjects like mathematics, science, English etc can be taught through games and extracurricular activities for kids.
Here is how you can craft activities for kids:
Family Photo Bingo
This is an activity that can improve your kid’s memory power and help in learning who is who in the family. Arrange nine family photos into rows of three. Give your kid nine checkers pieces or playing cards to serve as bingo chips. Call out “daddy” or “Grandma” and ask your kid to cover that photo with the card. Declare the winner who gets three in a row.
Marshmallow Tinkertoys
You need a bag of marshmallows and thin pretzel sticks. Now, you can help your kid in building a perfect tepee, 3-D house, puffy pal and much more. Your kids can create their own masterpieces simply by skewering marshmallows with pretzel sticks.
Grandparents Greetings
Ask your kid to create the card with glitters, stickers, cut out newspaper or magazine photos. Now ask your child to write something for the recipient. To add a cherry on the cake, ask your kid to stamp the envelope and drop it into any nearby mailbox.
Sugar Cookie Pizzas
Take a refrigerated sugar-cookie dough and slice down it into thick cookies. Flatten, bake and cool these pieces for about 10 minutes. Now ask your little one to decorate his piece with red M&M’s for pepperoni, red icing for sauce or strawberry jam and shredded coconut for cheese.
Create a Sensory Table
Fill a series of washing basins and bowls with peeled grapes, steel wool pads, cold cooked spaghettis, cornstarch or dry beans. Now blind fold your kid and ask him to run his hands through these items. Now ask your kid to guess the object.
Bowl-A-Rama
You need a rubber ball and empty water bottles for transforming a room into a bowling alley. Now suffice six bottles for bowling pins. In case bottles fall over too easily then add dry pasta, or little water in the bottles to increase its weight.
Here is how you can craft activities for kids:
Family Photo Bingo
This is an activity that can improve your kid’s memory power and help in learning who is who in the family. Arrange nine family photos into rows of three. Give your kid nine checkers pieces or playing cards to serve as bingo chips. Call out “daddy” or “Grandma” and ask your kid to cover that photo with the card. Declare the winner who gets three in a row.
Marshmallow Tinkertoys
You need a bag of marshmallows and thin pretzel sticks. Now, you can help your kid in building a perfect tepee, 3-D house, puffy pal and much more. Your kids can create their own masterpieces simply by skewering marshmallows with pretzel sticks.
Grandparents Greetings
Ask your kid to create the card with glitters, stickers, cut out newspaper or magazine photos. Now ask your child to write something for the recipient. To add a cherry on the cake, ask your kid to stamp the envelope and drop it into any nearby mailbox.
Sugar Cookie Pizzas
Take a refrigerated sugar-cookie dough and slice down it into thick cookies. Flatten, bake and cool these pieces for about 10 minutes. Now ask your little one to decorate his piece with red M&M’s for pepperoni, red icing for sauce or strawberry jam and shredded coconut for cheese.
Create a Sensory Table
Fill a series of washing basins and bowls with peeled grapes, steel wool pads, cold cooked spaghettis, cornstarch or dry beans. Now blind fold your kid and ask him to run his hands through these items. Now ask your kid to guess the object.
Bowl-A-Rama
You need a rubber ball and empty water bottles for transforming a room into a bowling alley. Now suffice six bottles for bowling pins. In case bottles fall over too easily then add dry pasta, or little water in the bottles to increase its weight.
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