Great Big Book of Children's Games: Over 450 Indoor & Outdoor Games for Kids, Ages 3-14 Paperback – 320 pages by Debra Wise
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:
Debra Wise is a freelance writer specializing in women's and children's topics. She has written for magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Glamour , and GQ and also for the New York Times Style section.
Sandy Forrest has designed and illustrated more than 40 books and won a Parent's Choice Award for Illustration.
Great Activities for Physical Education DVD Set featuring Artie Kamiya
Great Activities for Physical Education: Grades K-2 In this unique program, Artie Kamiya presents several fun physical education activities that promote student fitness and skill development. The DVD provides numerous developmentally appropriate activities for students in Grades K-2. Teachers will be able to save invaluable planning and preparation time. Games and activities included are: Walking through the Jungle, Let s Go Hunting, I See, The Egg Game, Ninja Turtle Tag, Seals and Sharks, The Birdie Dance and Birdie Dance Tag, The Seven Jumps Dance, Cranes and Crows, Odds and Evens, Jellybean Tag, Octopus Tag, Fish Gobbler and People to People. All of these activities can be easily implemented into any curriculum. 56 minutes.
Great Activities for Physical Education: Grades 3-5 Artie Kamiya introduces a wide variety of new activities that are designed for fitness and skill development for students in grades 3-5! This comprehensive DVD will help physical education teachers discover innovative ways to keep their students actively involved and having fun. The games and activities included are: Sitting Square Dance, Partner Challenges, Scatter Square Dance, Leader s Change, Line Leader s Change, Cooperative Group Volley, Bowling for Fitness, Crazy Softball, End Ball, Sock-It-To-Me Soccer, I Like People Who, Triangle Tag, Cranes and Crows, Multiplication Tag, Blob Tag and TV Legs Tag. Each game can be easily implemented into any elementary school curriculum. 57 minutes.
Great Activities for Physical Education: Middle School Are you ready to add more enthusiasm and fun to your physical education classes? In this DVD, Artie Kamiya provides several innovative new games and activities for students in grades 6-8. The games and activities included are: Roller Ball, Which Way Kickball, Hoop Ball, Build-up Ball, High Five Softball, Straight Line Baseball, Decision Ball, Square Ball, Cone Ball, 3-on-3-on-3 Basketball, Mystery Maze, Ultimate Ping Pong, Double Time Kickball, Score Ball, Guard Ball, Ultimate Football, Group Juggling and Basketball Hot Spots. Each game can be easily implemented into any middle school curriculum. 90 minutes.