Aliens are all around us! Look at their faces!
(Or animals. Or people. It's exciting, though!)
ADDED September 16, 2009
Length: Fifteen minutes the first day. After that, a fun activity that will keep popping up!
Parental Involvement: Explain the idea. Help your kids find some examples.
Kids Should Be Able to: Study the world, use their imaginations.
Sorry if the title of this one sounds a bit paranoid. But it's true! Aliens are all around us!
This is another activity that my kids just love. They talk about it a lot and bring it up out of the blue.
It's simple: you look around your environment trying to find "faces."
We're so used to seeing faces, we don't very frequently take a moment to think about what they consist of. Well, a face usually contains two eyes, which look like dots and are aligned with each other. Below the eyes there's usually a nose(which is kind of vertical), and then a mouth under that (which is, in case you haven't noticed, horizontal.)
So, to find or make a face, you need: two dots aligned, a vertical line underneath, and then a horizontal line underneath that. That's it.
When we have to wait somewhere, I used to encourage my kids to look for faces. (As I mentioned, now they excitedly encourage *me* to find faces.)
If your kids are ever interested, you could talk to them about the simplicity of faces, as I did above: two dots, vertical line, horizontal line. Similar to yesterday's post, you just don't need a ton of information to communicate effectively.
I'm glad my kids like this activity so much. I have to admit, it is very fun when the point a "face" out to me that hadn't crossed my mind.
Give it a try. There are less fun things to do with your time. Face it!
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