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This is the perfect antidote for rainy-day sulks and backseat boredom. Your kids are buzzing bundles of energy, ever eager for new experiences and new challenges. And one of your toughest jobs as a parent is finding ways to channel kids' energies that promote healthy development while keeping them entertained. Good news, your job just got a little easier. Great for car trips, rainy days, and even power outages, the "Great Big Book of Children's Games" is a treasury of games and activities for all occasions, every setting and every mood.You'll find indoor games and outdoor games, party games and solo games, sidewalk games, beach games, ball games and water games. There are games that stimulate young minds and those that promote physical development. You'll find skill-building games and games designed to sharpen individual faculties, card games and word games, and an abundance of pencil-and-paper games. And to help you do your part to keep our highways safe (and your sanity intact), there's an entire section devoted to games to be played while on the road.Fair weather or foul, the "Great Big Book of Children's Games" helps you keep the peace and banish bad moods with: 450 indoor and outdoor games for pre-school to middle-school age kids arranged by age group; games for every occasion, setting and number of players; solo games, team games, party games, and family games, many including innovative twists on old favorites; and, colorful text, 375 illustrations, and amusing game trivia that add to the fun and make the book easy to use. Debra Wise is a writer specializing in women's and children's topics, and has written for the "New York Times", Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and GQ. Sandy Forrest has designed and illustrated over 40 books and won a Parent's Choice Award for Illustration.
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The perfect antidote for rainy-day sulks and backseat boredom
Your kids are buzzing bundles of energy, ever eager for new experiences and new challenges. And one of your toughest jobs as a parent is finding ways to channel kids' energies that promote healthy development while keeping them entertained. Good news, your job just got a little easier.
Great for car trips, rainy days, and even power outages, the Great Big Book of Children's Games is a treasury of games and activities for all occasions, every setting and every mood. You'll find indoor games and outdoor games, party games and solo games, sidewalk games, beach games, ball games and water games. There are games that stimulate young minds and those that promote physical development. You'll find skill-building games and games designed to sharpen individual faculties, card games and word games, and an abundance of pencil-and-paper games. And to help you do your part to keep our highways safe (and your sanity intact), there's an entire section devoted to games to be played while on the road.
Fair weather or foul, the Great Big Book of Children's Games helps you keep the peace and banish bad moods with:
- 450 indoor and outdoor games for pre-school to middle-school age kids arranged by age group
- Games for every occasion, setting and number of players
- Solo games, team games, party games, and family games, many including innovative twists on old favorites
- Colorful text, 375 illustrations, and amusing game trivia that add to the fun and make the book easy to use
Debra Wise is a writer specializing in women's and children's topics, and has written for the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and GQ.
Sandy Forrest has designed and illustrated over 40 books and won a Parent's Choice Award for Illustration.
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book as a teaching assistant wanting ideas of games to play with the kids for short peiods when the teachers are busy. It is a wonderful book with clear explanations of games such as mind, word, pencil-paper, table top etc, giving age and number of players appropriate, and although not fully useable for school as it also contains party, water and card games, I found it a brillant resource to fill those last 10-15 minutes of the day, when you and the kids are tired.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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The book is great if you have children from 6-12 years not the 3-14 it states on the front. There are very limited ideas for children below 4 years.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Most games in this book, even the simplist have over a side of A4 explaining them, not for quick for suggestions as its a very heavy read! Most of the games require two or more children but a significant amount require 4+. The games are either obvious and well known, or complex. Some of the games are laughable, (a section on fighting games!) and is aimed at an american audience.
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So much to do!
Covers all aspects of games and playing, plenty of different ideas here for anyone planning parties, play sessions or just being at home with your own kids... Read more
Published 5 months ago by tinky74
Fab :)
it's really good, made my job so much easier! Going to get my friend one who's a supervisor in a nursery. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Ms. Stacey D. Whitehurst
great book with good ideas
this book was a real inspiration for us: it's filled with easy and more difficult games, and can be used in all circumstances, we really enjoyed using it in school
Published on 26 April 2010 by Bert Johnsons
Great Big Book of Children's Games: Over 450 Indoor and Outdoor Games...
I have not used this book yet, as my son is to young, but I have paged through it and it looks like a lot of fun.
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Published on 28 Aug 2009 by Ms. Rene Brand
Jam-packed full of ideas
This book is well-written (albeit in American English) and is literally full of ideas...all clearly laid out in different catergories. Read more
Published on 26 May 2009 by G. R. STANDISH
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