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Making Work Fun
If the word dishes triggers your family’s disappearing act, or if you hear “just a minute, mom” from a distance, this activity is for you.
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Learning Fun for Infants and Toddlers
These activities are especially designed to give infants and toddlers many opportunities to use their senses.
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Learning Fun for Preschoolers
These activities are especially designed to help preschoolers have fun as they develop skills in observing and classifying and in solving problems.
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Travel Games
With a little preparation, parents can make travel both educational and entertaining. This activity is intended to help families do just that.
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Memory Magic
This activity is designed to help us gain mastery of our memory power.
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Strip Puzzles
Test your problem-solving abilities with this puzzle. The activity is designed for school-age and older children, but preschoolers can try the first parts of it.
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Mind Stretchers
The following activities are all quiet puzzle activities. They may use pictures, geometric shapes, mathematics, or words.
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Magic Tricks
Most of these tricks require two people—a “mindreader” and an “assistant”—who both know the secret of the trick.
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Riddles
Guessing riddles is fun, and you can do it anywhere. Use this activity to stimulate your mind and your funny bone.
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Tangrams
A tangram is a puzzle. It can be enjoyed by the entire family. It does not require a great amount of skill. But it does require patience; time; and, above all, imagination.
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Making and Keeping Aids for Family Home Evenings
By using these ideas, you will increase the effectiveness of the activity and the ease in presenting the material.
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Creating Fancy Foods
Have the family spend this family home evening in the kitchen together creating unusual ways of making and arranging ordinary foods.
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Fun with Games
Have fun making up your own games. See how creative you can be. You may have as much fun making them as playing them.
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