Let it snow! It’s fun to go out side and play but when you have to stay in parents can organize some fun inside activities that do not involve electronics or expensive props.
Kids love zoo toys and animals so why not play a game about elephants. Pretend play is a fun activity for everyone and opens up creative play to help children develop self esteem.
To go for an “elephant walk” get the children in one long line. Everyone is to stretch one hand each back through their legs and, with the other hand, take the outstretched hand of the person in front. The children will be lined up, attached like elephants holding trunks and tails. Move to slow music.
Elephant Soccer- Children get into a circle with legs wide apart. Hold their arms down in front of them with hands clasped together for trunks. Roll a ball across the circle trying to get it between someone’s legs. Use only your trunks to keep the ball from going through your legs.
Besides active animal games provide your children with zoo related children’s learning toys such as a Zoo playset by ImagiPLAY. This wooden kids toy comes complete with a bright Zoo entrance with two large parrots and eleven hand painted zoo animals this play set will open up many teaching opportunities for indoor play.
Although pickles and planets may not have anything in common I did find an interesting idea on the Internet. Memorize this: “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles”.
Now you are ready to learn the names of our planets. Ready? It stands for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. I do not know why learning things in the form of a poem or through a song is helpful but it really does work.
Teaching young children about our planets can be an exciting experience. There are many games, activities and wood toys that you can find to help keep the learning fun. And we know “play” is a child’s learning tool when they are not at their desk.
You can begin with telling your children that our galaxy is known as the Milky Way. It is home to nine planets, their moons and the sun. The sentence that you just memorized is a way to remember those planets in the order in which they are situated from the sun.
To keep children interested in learning about space and our planets remember to watch for the manufacturers recommended age for any wooden kids toy, craft project or game. You may like this website Elementary GLOBE that I just found: http://www.globe.gov/fsl/html/templ.cgi?elemGLOBE&lang=en .
Elementary GLOBE is designed to introduce students of grades K-4 to the study of Earth System Science (ESS). Elementary GLOBE forms an instructional unit comprised of five modules that address ESS and interrelated subjects including weather, hydrology, phenology, and soils. Each Elementary GLOBE module contains a science-based storybook and classroom learning activities.
And don’t forget to take a look at our own playset, a wood toy called “ Zoom to the Moon”. This is an award winning wooden toy for kids 3 up which includes a portable rocket ship set is perfect for take-along space adventures with 7 hand-painted wooden figures and 5″ x 8.5″ rocket ship tote that has zippered closure for secure take offs and landing! Hand-crafted for ImagiPLAY from Rubberwood - an environmentally-friendly hardwood.
You will love the child safe paints and splinter-proof wood this toy is made from.
Many states are receiving many inches of snow. Kids are getting “snow days”, and maybe even parents are unable to get to work.
This is an ideal time to get out anything that will slide down a hill or that can be pulled over a field of beautiful white snow. You can use toboggans, inflatable sleds and inflatable sleds shaped like inner tubes. Maybe you have a round disc that looks like an oversized Frisbee.
Not all kids have had a chance to experience the thrill of a ride down a frozen hill or to play in the snow and build a snowman or ice fort. When a child experiences first snow day it is a time he will always remember.
Every ride will be accompanied by the sound of yells, screams and laughter — with plenty of rides going on at the same time. Parents will hear a constant symphony of joyful kid sounds and enjoy the day just a much as the children.
Children who have a Quadro adventure playset can help their dad build the sled from their modular tubes and go outside and join the fun. When the snow melts, your indoor fun will resume as you build a car, cart, spaceship, airplane or maybe even a house to play in.
Quadro’s Basic Construction Kit is an adventure playset that can be safely used outdoors as well as indoors and grows with your child.
As a child I was limited to the forts my brother built (see “It was Built and they Came”), but children nowadays can make an airplane and take a ride over the Atlantic Ocean, construct their own rocket ship and fly to the moon, design a car and race in the Indianapolis 500, build a locomotive and ride the rails, all from one Quadro playset.
With money being tight these days you want to get all you can when you select a new playset for your children. Everyone from churches, day care centers, play zone facilities and homes will benefit by owning modular construction sets.
With the Quadro vehicle kit, for example, your child can build and tear down structures as often as he wants. With this one play set he could build an airplane, locomotive, car, rocket ship, truck, buggy and much more.
These kits can be used outside or inside and are in bright colors such as green, yellow, red and blue – all the colors kids love.