This book has tons of great activities for young children ages 6-9 to keep them active, creative, and confident. Different activities focus on problem-solving, working as a team, using your imagination, making art, telling stories, and improvising.
The first chapter explores what creativity really is, and how to encourage children to be expressive. There are tips for reducing screen time, guiding the creative process, teaching children to think in different ways and explore their individuality with a growth mindset.
The chapters are divided by imaginative activities, arts and crafts, role play, and collaboration games. Each activity comes with clear instructions, an estimate of the prep time, a list of needed materials, and some tips and benefits of the activity.
The activities are really interesting and varied! There are a lot of activities for building things, like a toothpick tower, and for writing and storytelling, like the story jar that gives you a story prompt and you have to make up a story about the subject given.
There are also adorable illustrations for some of the activities that show children doing the activity, or that show children imagining something from the activity.
The arts chapter includes activities for drawing, crafts, dancing, and music. Since I am a musician, I really loved seeing the music games that teach about rhythm and sounds!
Some other activities include putting on a play with sock puppets, playing charades, creating a castle out of old boxes, and making a tent out of blankets. But others of the activities are really original, like creating art by splashing balls of paint onto a canvas outdoors, making your own snow globe, making a musical instrument like a guitar or drum, going on a sound scavenger hunt to identify different sounds, writing your own lyrics to a song. Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. All the opinions stated here are my own true thoughts, and are not influenced by anyone. #books #bookreview #childrensbook #childrensactivity #bookstagram #kidsactivitybook
This book includes sudoku puzzles, nonograms, calcudoku, and masyu games. There are cryptic puzzles that solve similar to sudoku, but result in decrypting a word or phrase. Masyu is a puzzle where you draw lines that connect in a path through black or white circles with strict rules of movement and direction.
Each puzzle comes with clear instructions to get you started, and a hint in case you get stuck. The answers to each puzzle are at the back of the book, so that you can check your work.
I was surprised at how easy it was to learn the rules of each type of puzzle, but that doesn't mean the puzzles themselves are easy! Some of them are quite difficult, while others are a little easier to crack. Some of the logic puzzles where you have to eliminate the various options to find the answer are really interesting.
This book definitely got my brain working and thinking creatively to solve the puzzles! I just love code breaking games and puzzles like this!
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. All the opinions stated here are my own true thoughts, and are not influenced by anyone. #bookstagram #books #book #puzzles #puzzlebook #sudokubook #bookreview
