Super Point!
Kids have fun wracking their brains. And without realizing it, they're quite nicely occupied.
ADDED September 28, 2009
Length: A good amount of time. Fifteen to thirty minutes-ish.
Parental Involvement: Explain it. Make marks on paper as your kids think up ideas.
Kids Should Be Able to: Think of stuff in given categories, such as animals, fruits, etc.
As
you surely know, sometimes parenting is like a sales job. Salesmen and
saleswomen have to convince customers to buy a product. Salespeople
can't *force* customers to sign on the dotted line.
Well, parents have to convince their little customers, too. True,
parents *can* force their kids to do things with the threat of
punishments (and following through with punishments.) But wouldn't you
persuade your kids to get them to do what you want, rather than
threaten and punish?
Super Point is designed to keep kids occupied and entertained.
So without further ado, here's what you do . . .
1. Grab a blank piece of paper and pencilI choose a very high number, such as 150, and tell the kids that when they get that amount of marks on the paper, they get a Super Point!
2. Tell the kids you're going to make one mark (or one line) on the paper for every correct answer they say. Each mark on the paper is also a point.
3. Think of a category, and ask the kids to name as many things in that category as possible. The categories we've used include fruits, animals, and aliens from Ben 10. We want big, "broad" categories that contain a lot of stuff. Because the kids need to name all of it!
(For fruits, for instance, the kids named bananas, peaches, apples, pomegranates, avocados, and so forth. They got a point -- a mark on the page -- for each one.)
Oh, and what exactly is a Super Point, you'd like to know? Um, I don't really know. I just make a big thick mark on the paper, over and across all the other lines. I hold it up above my head triumphantly and yell out, "Super Point!"
My 5-year-old enjoyed doing Super Point so much that he didn't want to stop. He asked me, "Daddy, can we please fill not just one but two pages with lines? That would be a Super Duper Point!"
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