Word Drawing Game
Do your kids like to draw? Do you ever play drawing games? If you’re looking for a fun drawing board game to play with non-readers, I’ll walk you through how we did this with Cranium. A little background The other…
Category Critical Thinking Skills
Sensory Activity: Wheat Berries
Could your child spend hours sifting flour or scooping sand? Sensory activities like these can fully absorb the minds of young children as they test the limits of materials and build imaginary worlds through pouring, filling, and building. This sensory activity…
Mining the Garage for Toys
Did you ever play with a Lite Brite? How about Star Wars Action figures? We dusted off some old favorites and have breathed new life into these throw-backs to my own childhood and beyond. Classic toys have a simplicity to them that can…
Art Project: Overhead Projector
My husband works at a university and the collector in me was overjoyed to discover that there’s a little-known department on campus that sells surplus property from departments that no longer need old projectors, desks, and reams of paper. I…
Are Black Markers Really Black? A Chromatography Lesson.
What color is black? Is it one color or many colors combined to “look black”? Black is the absence of all reflective colors, and when the three primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) are combined in just the right way,…
Sensory Activity: Shredded Paper
If you’re afraid of a mess, I have to warn you up front that this is a messy one. But it’s not a dirty kind of mess and if you stick with me here, you might become a shredded paper…