Hobbies And Interests
Scrabble Junior
Scrabble Junior is excellent for helping children to improve their grammar and practice their spelling. It's easier than the adult version of the game as it contains more common letters, has a simpler scoring system and has pictures printed on the board to help players. Using seven letters pulled from a bag, players must create high scoring words. It's a game that both adults and children can enjoy together.
Pictionary Junior
Pictionary is a good game to play at large family events or parties. Players select a card and attempt to draw the word so their team (competing against another) guesses what it is. The junior is the same as the adult version but contains more familiar, simpler words. Young children enjoy both drawing images and guessing what they area. If, after time, children become familiar with the words, you can make your own cards with words on.
Jenga
Jenga helps children develop hand-and-eye coordination and an understanding that sometimes you need to pace yourself and rushing doesn't work. A series of rectangular bricks are stacked, before one person has to slide a brick out and place it on the top of the tower. Over time, as more and more pieces are moved, the tower becomes more unstable. The person who makes the tower fall over loses.
Snakes and Ladders
Snakes and Ladders is a classic board game that has been played for generations. It's incredibly simple and provides young children with an incentive to practice their counting skills. Starting on square one, players have to get to square 100 by throwing the dice and moving their counter accordingly. When players land on the ladders they can progress up the board but, when they land on a snake they have to move downward.
Battleships
Battleship is a game of luck in which players have to guess where players have positioned their ships by stating coordinates. Children learn the importance of keeping track of what they've said and strategy.