Form Words With Alphabets

Do you remember how I taught my son spelling? Here’s another way to teach spelling in a fun way.

All you need is some alphabets printed out on paper.

What I did was to put all the alphabets in the middle of the table and started the activity by asking my children to spell their own names. Boy, were they excited. They started picking the alphabets that made up their names and arrange them.

The activity can be continued with other words. One thing I observed was that the attention span of children is short and thus, the activity cannot be too long.

A short session where children can fully concentrate and benefit is always better than a long session where children are bored and cannot absorb. Let our children learn without stress, without pressure.

House Warming Party - Games

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Are you ready to play some games with the children? Before you do so, can you please add this blog of mine to your blogroll and if you have already done so earlier, can you please change the URL from love4play.blogspot.com to:

http://www.childrenloveplay.com

Please?

Thank you so much.

Let's pick up the last door gift before we proceed to games.

Now, let's play some games! Music please......

Have you enjoyed yourselves? I have and I would like to thank all my buddies for coming. Do come and visit all my three virtual homes often. I'm a friendly host, you know?

Thank you everybody!

Follow The Leader - Shhhh

Have you ever wished that your children would sit still at parties and not cause trouble? How do we stop children from running about during gatherings, parties and functions?

My answer is: GAMES

You may think I’m crazy but read on.

Do you know the game “Follow the Leader”? After some modification, it turned out to be a quiet game I played with my children when I wanted them to stop running and jumping.

Here’s how:

1. Form a circle.
2. Pick a leader on rotating basis. Usually, I would start and my children follow.
3. Pick an action. Eg: clap your hands very slowly and silently without any sound.
4. Let the children do as you do. Everyone does the same action at the same time.
5. Repeat with another action.

What made it fun were the actions, the speed and the transition. I would show them a slow action and suddenly change to a more complicated and fast action. Boy, did they enjoy themselves.

This idea came to me when we were at my friend’s house warming party. The children were running about after food and to stop them from running, I had to think of a game fast. I didn’t want to ask them to sit quietly because I knew they were very excited over the big garden and specious living hall of the house. So, replacing their existing game with another game sort of saved the day. They sat down happily and enjoyed every minute of it.

Well, what about you? How do you stop your children from running about during parties and gatherings?

Let's Play Dominoes

Rule: Copy the entire list and add your name at the bottom. And tag at least 5 friends. (But you can tag as many as you like).

Thea is {bloggerhappy.com}, Childstar, Mike, My Scrappy side, AbieAggie, Alpha, Apple, Apols, Jacqui. Jane, Jody, Joy,Kelly, Mich, Peachy, Jenny, Nyumix, Rose, Agnes, Hazel, Lovelymummy, Chinnee (demoments.net), Lemonjude, Wen, Chanel, Montessorimom, JO-N,

Elaine asked me to play and I'm asking Aunty J and Contented Mum to join me. Would you like to play dominoes with us?

Craft For Children - Playgroup 1 March 2008

Here's a simple craft for small children where children can enjoy sticking color strips of paper on to the animal printouts.

Materials:

1. Printout of animal pictures
2. Color paper cut into small strips
3. Glue


Methods:

1. Cut color paper into small strips.
2. Print pictures of animals.
3. Apply glue onto the whole picture.
4. Stick color paper strips onto picture.

After you are done, what do you do with the animal collage? Keep in the box? NO!!


What about doing these?

1. Cut out the animal collage and stick it on a cardboard to make a cute greeting card.
2. Cut a big strip of cardboard the size of your child's head to make a cute hat. Stick the animal collage in the middle and let's role play! (See picture)
3. Suggestion one can be modified and be made a wall decoration instead of a greeting card.
4. Suggestion two can be modified and be made the outer layer of a pencil stand instead of a hat. We would need a container to measure the diameter of the cardboard instead of our child's head.

So, this would be our craft for tomorrow's playgroup. Do you think the children will like this?

Friendship Chain

I am joining Juliana in this friendship chain and I thought I would do this in all three blogs of mine.

~~Begin Copy~~

This is the easy way and the fastest way to :

1. Make your Authority Technorati explode.
2. Increase your Google Page Rank.
3. Get more traffic to your blog.
4. Makes more new friends.

Rules :

1. Start copy from "Begin Copy" until "End Copy" to your blog.
2. Put your own blog name and link.
3. Tag your friends as much as you can.

1. Picturing of Life 2. Juliana's Site 3. Shower Your Children With Love - The Right Way 4. It's All About Play 5.


This friendship chain goes to Sweetiepie and Ling.

Tagging Along Game

I thought I would play along in this game in all three blogs of mine. So, if you notice, I was actually tagged by myself (my parenting blog).

• One of the fastest ways to see your technorati authority explode!
• Increase your Google PageRank fast
• Attract large volume of new traffic to your site
• Build your community
• Make new friends!

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Wen and Ginnie, would you like to join me in this tagging along game?