I love using home-made educational games and have made well over 1000 games while teaching my three children. I am now working with my grandsons. I also teach workshops on making games for learning. I would love to hear about educational games others have made and use in their homeschool.
2007-03-08 12:49:08 · 4 answers · asked by Mary P 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Home Schooling
My kids make their own boardgames, I don't make the games myself. I feel that it's part of their educational experience to be able to logically plan out a board, and make up the rules, and find people to play with.
On the other hand, I do usually carry odds-n-ends in my overalls pocket, so if we're waiting in line or in an office, we pull them out and make up a game right then. Usually at least one die, some pennies, and yarn. Other things have included paper clips, random lego pieces, pokemon cards, just what ever I've picked up from the floor while cleaning and forgotten to put away.
2007-03-09 02:30:23 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Wow, you ought to put a book together and sell it through Rainbow Resource or something! You are really creative and motivated! Good for you!
When my kids were in preschool/kinder/lower elementary we played lots of games. I mean, LOTS OF GAMES. Many of them were home-made. Some of them were just action games. My sister's kids are a little ahead of mine so she would give me ideas and send me things to make. She still will occasionally play games with her kids, and they are 13, 15,and 17! I cannot remember the last time I played a game in school with my two, who are grades 7 & 8 now. At some point my kids realized it made the day longer, and rather than sound out the word then do whatever, they'd rather just sound out the word then have more play time at the end of school. This was fine with me. Also, their subjects got more challenging and time-consuming starting in about 4th grade, so games sort of fell by the wayside.
I think that Abeka now has a packet of games for about $10 listed with their preschool or kinder stuff, and if my kids were little I'd probably buy those, too, because we played all kinds of games and it would have been nice to have games that I didn't have to make every bit of them myself. If you do make a book, rather than just giving directions, it would be nice if you had some reproducibles in there. HINT HINT!
2007-03-09 02:18:43 · answer #2 · answered by Cris O 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-05 10:44:54 · answer #3 · answered by endicott 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll second the idea of your compiling a book.
and I'd like to know what burr is in the butt of the person who gave both answers ahead of me the thumbs down.
wtf? are you of the opinion that learning should be tedious and painful?
2007-03-09 14:04:33 · answer #4 · answered by answer faerie, V.T., A. M. 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋