Changing Rooms
Directions:
Here's an activity that will turn any waiting room into an amusement park for the mind. And you won't have to turn it upside down either!
The idea is to have your child focus on some aspect of the room and then close his or her eyes. You then alter something and see if he or she can figure out what's different. For example, let's say that the waiting room has a stack of magazines on a coffee table, and the top magazine happens to have a red cover. Have your child look in the vicinity of the table, then, while his or her eyes are closed, place a different magazine on top.
You can also rearrange coats on a coatrack, place a brochure backwards in a rack, or conduct other little bits of chicanery that won't cause anyone extra work to tidy up (you might suggest a rule that the room changer puts everything back the way it was after a round of guessing has taken place).
Say, do you suppose there's always been a mitten hanging on that ficus tree by the window?
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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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