For Today… the final Monday of 2015 Outside my window…. it is grey and dreary. rainy, blah. I am thinking… about how much fun my kids and I have had playing games today. I almost won at air hockey, but N-boy came back to steal victory. I am thankful… that we don’t have anywhere to…
This is shocking to me. He is smart and musical, creative and physical. He is so very strong. He is interested in sports and building and Lego’s and Knex. He is loving watching the original Star Wars movies with his dad, they’ve watched the first two. He read Wind in the Willows and started on…
One last idea, one of my favorite received gifts, then some links. Last year I was gifted a card table with the legs cut off. We use it all the time: games, folding laundry, doing puzzles, making posters, eating lunch in front of a video. It can easily go away and it holds a lot…
I’m not talking about all crafty things today, maybe Fine Arts and Crafts would have been a better title. Here are some ideas. All three of my children take piano lessons, so fun repertoire books are always happily accepted. My oldest daughter has particularly liked The Wizard of Oz and The Sound of Music songbooks….
I have always loved giving puzzles as gifts. We have tubs of big wooden puzzles and boxes of puzzles. When my kids were toddlers and preschoolers, Melissa and Doug puzzles like shapes, upper and lower case letters, numbers, hands and feet, vehicles, and animals were in huge rotation. As they got older, geography puzzles became…
Games are a fantastic way to learn about the world we live in and the location of various places. We have a lot of Geography games that we enjoy. The first is The Scrambled States of America game. There’s a related book by the same name that I kind of hate, but I do like…
I don’t know if you can tell from these three weeks of my series, but my kids love logic games and toys (they also love logic workbooks). They enjoy solving the puzzle. Today, some of our favorite games: Qwirkle is a hands-down family favorite. Each player tries to get six tiles in a row of…
Last week, I wrote some about the individual Logic Games we’ve given our children. These are games they can do on their own. We also love games that we can play together, and a lot of those are logic games. There is a sense where most games have logic built in, but some games it…
Another type of gift we like to give our children are individual play logic games. I like that they can take these to quiet time and work through them with no interference (or help) and struggle to solve the problems. Some samples we’ve given throughout the years are: Kanoodle/Lonpos: In this game, your child learns…
We are totally those “mean” parents who give school items as Christmas, birthday, and Easter gifts. We enjoy fostering a lifestyle of learning for our children and they don’t really know otherwise. Some of my blog friends have asked me to share these “extras” and I considered doing a 31 Days series of Homeschool Extras,…