Backwards Day

To honor this wacky holiday, challenge each member of your family to wear one piece of clothing backward today. You can also reverse the day’s meals, and serve dinner for breakfast, and breakfast for dinner. Make a game of thinking up words that are the same spelled forward and backward (mom, dad, pop, tot etc.). […]

Tags:

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Twitter
  • RSS
read comments

Opposite Day

Use this day to teach your child an all-important beginning concept. All you need are lots of items representing opposites—for example, a soft cotton ball, a hard rock, a smooth piece of vinyl, a rough piece of sandpaper etc. Ask your child to place an object on one side of the table, then its opposite […]

Tags:

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Twitter
  • RSS
read comments

Sizeable Snowman

Children love to build a snowman out of snow, but they are also fun to build out of paper, especially if you live in a warm climate, or it is way too cold to go outside. This is a great way to teach children different shapes, sizes and color contrast.               Dark construction […]

Tags:

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Twitter
  • RSS
read comments