Fun Activities for Kids, Families, and Teachers

You may have seen this in emails going around but for those who haven’t read it!
Karen
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I am Invisible

It all began to make sense, the blank stares, the lack of response, the
way one of the kids will walk into the room while I’m on the phone and
asks to be taken to the store. Inside I’m thinking, ‘Can’t you see I’m
on the phone?’ Obviously not; no one can see if I’m on the phone,or
cooking, or sweeping the floor, or even standing on my head in the
corner, because no one can see me at all. I’m invisible. The invisible
Mom.

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Hello parents and teachers out there! I came across a great article/radio bit produced by National Public Radio that I just had to share! Since the product I sell, Story Time Felts, facilitates what this research suggests is necessary for kids, I was particularly interested! Here is just a snip, visit the NPR site to read the rest or listen to the 7 minute radio segment:

“It’s interesting to me that when we talk about play today, the first thing that comes to mind are toys,” says Chudacoff (Howard Chudacoff, a cultural historian at Brown University).

“Whereas when I would think of play in the 19th century, I would think of activity rather than an object.”

Chudacoff’s recently published history of child’s play argues that for most of human history what children did when they played was roam in packs large or small, more or less unsupervised, and engage in freewheeling imaginative play. They were pirates and princesses, aristocrats and action heroes. Basically, says Chudacoff, they spent most of their time doing what looked like nothing much at all.

“They improvised play, whether it was in the outdoors… or whether it was on a street corner or somebody’s back yard,” Chudacoff says. “They improvised their own play; they regulated their play; they made up their own rules.”

Continue reading this story at NPR.org…

Are you itching for some new ideas to try this month? The following were sent in by our creative Story Time Felts consultants!

Heart Attack

Something I have always loved doing is to give my friend’s yard a heart attack. Cut out a bunch of hearts from pink and red construction paper. Then you can either leave them blank or write what you admire about your friend on them. Tape some of the hearts to plastic forks. Then comes the fun part, you tape the hearts to your friend’s walls, and stick the forked hearts in their lawn. It is a lot of fun for both you and your friend.

Pages of Love

One of my friends made me a couple of scrapbook pages of things we had done together as roommates in college. It is a nice reminder of the fun times we had together. I have a lot of cute pictures of my daughter and her friend. I know that her mom would love it if I made a scrapbook page from them and gave it to her. Free labor!

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