Giant Signs

Materials:

• Poster board
• cardboard
• art supplies
• double-stick tape or nontoxic glue

Your children probably enjoy reading road signs when your family is traveling. How about getting them to create signs for inside your house?

Provide sheets of poster board or shirt cardboard, on which your kids will draw signs with markers or crayons. They can also draw the signs on sheets of colored paper, then affix the paper to the cardboard with glue or tape. Suggest starting off with simple signs like STOP, which can be used where a hallway enters a busy room. Your kids can also modify real signs: NO PARKING may become NO SLEEPING when placed over the sofa. Encourage the creation of nonsense signs as well. How about WATCH FOR FALLING BANANAS or CAUTION: DINOSAUR CROSSING?

Maybe your family needs a SPEED LIMIT: 2 MPH sign in the hallway leading to the playroom or a NO SNACKING ZONE warning on the refrigerator. Next time your children are running inside, you can pull them over and say, "Hey, didn't you see the speed-limit sign back there?"

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© 2005 by Steve and Ruth Bennett. Excerpted from 365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

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