An Indoor Play Activity
Turn your child into a roving interviewer; supply a clipboard, paper, and pencil, and stand back.
Materials Required:
- Clipboard
- Paper
- Pencil
Instructions:
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Children’s Activity 77: Household Factory
An Arts and Crafts Activity
Manufacturing machinery can be fascinating for kids and adults alike. With this activity, your child can pretend that he or she is stamping out widgets (whatever those are), toys, or common household objects.
Materials Required:
- Large cardboard box
- Tape
- Paper towel and toilet paper tubes
- Crayons or markers
- Dashboard items – Bottle caps, plastic container lids etc
- Toys, stuffed animals, household props
Instructions:
Children’s Activity 76: House of Cups
An Indoor Play Activity
What to do with those pesky, unrecyclable disposable cups? Save them, wash them, then break them out on a rainy day for the world stacking championship!
Materials Required:
- Disposable drinking cups (saved and washed)
Instructions:
Children’s Activity 75: House of Cards
An Indoor Play Activity
Playing cards make for wonderful building materials. Here are some games that will entertain your child and build his or her fine dexterity.
Materials Required:
- Deck of Playing Cards
Instructions:
Children’s Activity 74: House Detective
A Children’s Indoor Play Activity
In Hide It (Childrens Indoor Play Activity 69), you played the classic “warmer / colder” finding game with your child. Now give your child clues about common objects hidden in your house. Tailor the clues to your child’s abilities.
Materials Required:
- Your Time
Optional Materials:
- Scraps of paper
Instructions:
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Children’s Activity 73: Homonyms
An Indoor Eucational Play Activity
Homonyms are words that sound the same, but are really different. Here’s some fun that will improve your children’s word and spelling skills at the same time.
Materials Required:
- Your times
Instructions:
Children’s Activity 72: Homemade Dashboards
An Arts and Crafts Activity
Extracting our son from the driver’s seat of our car proved to be one of the greatest parenting challenges we had ever faced. Life became easier when we gave him his own dashboard.
Materials Required:
- Cardboard box
- Plastic container lids
- Bottle caps
- Brads
- Crayons and markers
- Cardboard tubes
Instructions:
Children’s Activity 71: Home Planetarium
An Indoor Play Activity
These days, a good planetarium projector costs a little over $300,000. That may be too pricey, but you can create a pretty wild – and even educational – light show with nothing more than a flashlight and some common household items.
Materials Required:
- Flashlight
- Large juice can
- Paper
- Tape or rubber band
- Scissors or X-acto knife (adult use only)
Instructions:
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Children’s Activity 70: Hollow Eggs
An Arts and Crafts Activity
Once upon a time, the name Faberge meant a little more than cologne; it was the name of the man who perfected the decoration of hollow eggs with precious trappings like diamonds and gold.
Materials Required:
- Eggs
- Bowl
- Watercolors
- Felt-tip markers
- Macaroni, barley
Instructions:
Boycott The Use of Educational Video With No Subtitles or Closed Captions
Educational Video Without Subtitles or Captions Fails To Provide Equal Access for all Children
We live in a time where now more than 94% of teachers use video as an important educational video resource in the classroom.
As a result a host of services now attempt to provide online educational video to satisfy that growing demand. However with the exception of only two companies, they all conveniently ignore the fact that providing educational video without the essential availability of subtitles or captions, fails to provide equal access for all children. And it’s all because of cost …it simply costs too much.
The power of Visual Learning is beyond doubt, but the use of captions and subtitles on Educational Video is regarded as essential for:
- The Deaf and hearing impaired students.
- Improving comprehension for struggling readers.
- Improving literacy for children with learning disabilities and Special Needs.
- Enabling all children to improve Reading and Literacy skills.
- When combined with the audio visual nature of video they provides for the widest range of Learning styles.
- Providing language benefits for students learning English as a Second Language
They are so important that the company Zane Education recognises the use of subtitles and captions on educational video as The Missing Piece.
Even the law now recognises and demands the use of subtitles and captions on video.
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