A few great education-focused games from other blogs:
- Use paper and crayons to create this lowercase and uppercase floor alphabet game from Filth Wizardry.
- I think this idea from Make and Takes is a very pretty way to learn about mixing colors. All you need to make a rainbow of colors is milk (water works too, but isn’t as pretty) and food coloring.
- Mommyme at The Wonder Years shares a Montessori-inspired button practice plus matching game you can put together quickly with a needle and thread, a few buttons, and some felt.
- Katey from Having Fun at Home tells how to make your own magnet letter game.
MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.
I really love the button practice post at The Wonder Years. Thank you so much for linking to this, I was going to make sunnyboy a button frame but these are so much simpler to make and would probably be simpler for him to use too.
Great links. Thanks! Got sucked into reading a bunch of the “practical life” lessons at Wonder Years. I think I should do some of those, so maybe next time I bake a cake with my kids, I don’t spend the whole time cringing at their attempts to measure, pour, etc… It hadn’t occurred to me that I could break down each step and let them practice them. separately, so then baking a cake is the culmination of their learned skills! Duh!
Thanks for another great round-up, Mary Anne! I bookmarked that Alphabet game for a day when my daughter <>doesn’t<> have a tummy bug :-)
Thanks for sharing – I always appreciate readers linking to relevant posts from their own blogs or other blogs they read :)
Hi! I recently discovered your blog and have been enjoying it. I made a very simple < HREF="http://livinglearningplaying.blogspot.com/2009/03/homemade-bingo.html" REL="nofollow"> Bingo<> game with my 2 1/2 year old that I thought I’d share. Thanks for all the great ideas!