Play Chess for Kids
>Play chess! Choose a colour, black or white and play! Make this a family activity: start a family tournament. This activity promotes strategy skills, math skills and predictive, action and consequence skills.
>Play chess! Choose a colour, black or white and play! Make this a family activity: start a family tournament. This activity promotes strategy skills, math skills and predictive, action and consequence skills.
>Go ‘get lost’ in a nature maze made of corn or hedges. Make this a family activity: Break into teams and see who can find their way out of the maze first. This activity promotes navigation and orientation skills .
>Can you build a house of cards? Take a deck of playing cards and try stacking them up. How many can you stack before the house falls down? Make this a family activity: Everyone work together–and nobody sneeze. This activity promotes eye hand coordination, patience and engineering skills.
>Birch bark can be used like paper. Draw or colour on birch bark with pens, pencils, pencil crayons or markers. When finding birch bark for drawing, be sure to use birch bark that has already shed off a tree, is on a dead tree, or is almost off the tree. If you pull birch bark
>Put together a jigsaw puzzle, or put together one you’ve made. For added challenge, see how fast you can put it together. Can you do it blindfolded? Make this a family activity: work on a big puzzle with your whole family. This activity promotes shape awareness and spatial skills.
>Let’s play basketball. Make this a family activity: Make a family team. This activity promotes physical activity, coordination and teamwork.