Due to upcoming hurricane Irene, I’m hoping everyone will find a safe place to stay and enough food and water to last through the weekend. Once these important stuff are taken care of and everyone is more or less relaxed, another question arises. What in the world are we going to do locked in the house all weekend with super active and also stressed kids?!

Here are just a few ideas of different indoor activities that will keep kids occupied and entertained. They will also help us adults to take our minds off of what the nature is unleashing upon us outside. Read more..

Printable jigsaw puzzles is another great idea when you need printable fun in a flash. They offer an instant entertainment for children of all ages. Printable jigsaw puzzles have many advantages over their traditional counterparts. One of them is the fact that you can print a new piece any time your child looses one. Read more..

Riddles never cease to amuse people. Solving riddles are not only fun but it’s a great learning tool. Children riddles provide an opportunity to enjoy, and sharpen the wits and tap the creativity in your child. Most of the children riddles are brain teasers that encourage them to think out of the box, widen their perspective, and learn new ways to look at world. Children riddles help parents and teachers to brighten up and make more fun studying with kids. Riddles help kids to become more aware and more interested in the language they speak. They also increase the number of words kids learn on daily basis. Through riddles kids also get familiar with the grammar and learn how to pronounce the words correctly. Here is a collection of a few riddles to start. Read them to your child and let them guess the answer.
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A puzzle is a problem or enigma that tests the ingenuity of the solver. In these 4 piece puzzles, the child is intended to put together pieces in a logical way in order to come up with the whole image. There are 3 difficulty levels:

1. For the little ones I’d recommend to print out the game in 2 copies (one as a template, and the other one for cutting up)-thus they can lay out the pieces on top of the main template picture.

2. For a bit older children (toddlers for instance) it would be easier to have a template picture in front of them while putting the puzzle together.
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Using this simple game with your child you will be able to repeat the colors and their combinations, learn basic geometric objects. It will also help your child develops memory, concentration, and logic. At first the task seems fairly easy: correctly pick out geometric shapes to their seats. But it is important that each color is placed in its own place.
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A little bit about puzzles..

The game “Puzzle” is one of the most affordable toys that develop logical thinking, attention, memory and imagination. Puzzles are very useful for the development of thinking and cognitive abilities. According to psychologists, the game “Puzzle” promotes the development of imaginative and logical thinking, voluntary attention, perception, and particularly distinguishing individual items by color, shape, size and etc. It also teaches to perceive the relationship between part and whole and develops fine motor skills.
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