We recently found ourselves waiting in a coffee shop waiting for the store to open. We arrived with our 9 and 5 year olds in tow to find that the store hadn’t opened for another hour. After thirty minutes of walking around to get fresh air, we found that, while the air might have been fresh, it was in fact too cold to hang out for another thirty minutes. So now they are sitting in the coffee shop enjoying a cup of coffee while the children are sitting now waiting for their hot chocolate cooling With no books or games in hand, what’s a family to do?
While this day has been unique, it is a familiar situation for parents. Sometimes we go prepared but quickly empty our bag of tricks when we wait at the doctor’s office, the dentist’s office, the oil change the station, the airport or even a restaurant takes longer than we thought or thought we could stand.
This is one of our free creative games to spend time with children in a fun and constructive way.
I found it in Magazine:
Almost anywhere we find ourselves waiting, we will find plenty of stores waiting for us. Even inside the restaurants there are many freebies that can be easily borrowed and returned.
When my boys were little, we would often stop at the curb and just look through the picture galleries and talk about what we saw. When we hesitate to wait, we turn our magazine into challenging games that can be used to host one or create a friendly competition between two or more. The types are endless. Here are a few of our favorite categories for “From the Magazine” games for free.
Animals:
It can be common as in any animal or more specific as in dog or chicken or even specific to breed like Dalmatian. You can bump it up and search for categories like mammal, reptile or bird for the budding scientist.
Food:
Again, the research can be general as in fruits or specific as in apple or orange. You can also search for something from individual foods, including grains, meats, fruits and vegetables, dairy or sugar. and fats.
Epistles:
This one is pretty obvious, but you can spell capital or lowercase, the first word or two letters in a row, like the 2 letters T in “bottom.” Of course you can also work on letter sounds and phonics with challenges like “find something that starts with the letter D”.
Colors and shapes:
Preschoolers will enjoy the challenge of finding colors and shapes and you can even add size as in “small and green” or “something big and blue.”< /a> It’s also fun to look for patterns like stripes or polka dots.
For a more free game and an educational way to spend time with kids to enjoy “Discipline in the car”. Let the children and the diam be a lot of fun for the kids and let it be a lot of mass. Waiting or riding doesn’t have to be boring if Mom and Dad have a few ideas for creating games.
