Daily Activities — creativity

Family Invitation to Play: TP Rolls and Bouncy Balls

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Family Invitation to Play: TP Rolls and Bouncy Balls

Today I’m giving you and your family a creative invitation—see what games you can come up with using just TWO supplies: toilet paper rolls and bouncy balls!

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Learn More about Color Schemes with a Fun Art Project (Intellectual Skill)

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Learn More about Color Schemes with a Fun Art Project (Intellectual Skill)

Intellectual-development activity: Help your family explore color schemes and learn about complementary, split-complementary, analogous, monochromatic, tetrad, triad, and square color schemes! Then invite them to make a simple art project inspired by the popular stained-glass sidewalk chalk displays that were so popular earlier this year.

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Talking to Your Family about Friendship: A Creative Video Challenge with Apples to Apples Cards!

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Talking to Your Family about Friendship: A Creative Video Challenge with Apples to Apples Cards!

Back-to-school time can create worry about finding good friends at school. And this year may be especially tough without close friends nearby as the school year starts. It’s a great time to talk with your children about #friendship—not just on how to find a good friend but also about how to BE a good friend. Make the discussion extra fun by creating mini video clips using Apples to Apples cards.

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Bad Poetry Remix—a Creativity Prompt for National Bad Poetry Day

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Bad Poetry Remix—a Creativity Prompt for National Bad Poetry Day

Tomorrow is National Bad Poetry Day, and this creativity exercise will get everyone’s imagination going! Here’s how to play.

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Storybook Relay—Easy and Fun Creativity Exercise

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Storybook Relay—Easy and Fun Creativity Exercise

For this storytelling activity, have everyone head to the bookshelf and pick out some favorite books. Find some funny or interesting sentences in the books and write them on slips of paper. Put the paper slips into a bowl. You’ll be using them to create a story made up from all the sentences!

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