An Indoor Play Activity
A deck of playing cards can provide hours of entertainment for your child – without your having to explain how to play poker or blackjack.
Materials Required:
- Playing card deck
Instructions:
A deck of playing cards can provide hours of entertainment for your child – without your having to explain how to play poker or blackjack.
Show your child all the marvelous pictures of people and symbols contained in a deck of cards.
Then suggest that your child develop a game of his or her own using some of the following ideas:
- matching all cards of the same color
- grouping cards with pictures or cards with numbers
- comparing two cards and guessing which has the higher value, and so on.
The most entertaining game for you, however, may well be the not-uncommon one in which your child invents complex rules that seem to change with each new hand.
At least it keeps everyone alert.
Watch out! Your child may play a two-suit stomp on your latest discard, then pick up all the black cards and proclaim, “Bingo.”
Improvised Card Games are a fun and entertaining Indoor Play activity for you and your children that can also help develop and encourage their numeracy, creative and imaginative skills.
This Children’s Arts and Crafts Activity is sponsored by Zane Education – the home of online Visual Learning. Visual Learning is a method of online learning that includes the use of online subtitled educational video that caters for virtually all Learning Styles. The online education videos are accompanied by online multiple choice quizzes, lesson plans and interactive study tools. Virtually all children prefer Visual Learning as it makes study much more interesting and fun. It is the ideal online education solution for teachers and classroom students, homeschooling, special needs education and children that you’d like to see improve their reading and literacy skills and children studying ESL – as they study the same curriculum topics studied by their classmates and peers. Zane Education provides that and much more.
