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Make Learning Fun With Educational Children's Games

By Autumn Lockwood

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If you have young children, you know how important it is to find ways to make learning fun. Children just seem to naturally learn more when their activities are enjoyable as well as educational. Although there are plenty of expensive computerized and electronic learning devices on the market, you can actually provide your child with games that are both educational as well as inexpensive. Many times, you can even create these games yourself, without the need to spend a lot of time, effort or expense. Here are a couple great ideas for fun learning games you can make for your child.

Alphabet Hunt

Learning the sounds of the alphabet and discovering words that begin with those sounds is a great activity for children who do not yet know how to read. Make an "alphabet notebook" for your child by filling a three-ring binder with 26 plastic page protector sheets. Then, use a permanent marker to print one letter of the alphabet on each page, in both upper case and lower case. Alternatively, you could use colorful alphabet stickers to mark the pages. Give your child the notebook, a collection of old magazines, and a pair of round-tip scissors. They can then hunt through the magazines, looking for pictures of items that begin with each letter. When they find one, they can cut it out and place it in the appropriate page pocket. When they are finished, review their result together. If there are any pictures in the wrong page, talk about them and find the correct page together. You can then empty the page protector pockets, and your child can play the game again. As an added bonus, your child can use the pictures that they cut out of the magazines to make collage artwork, which you can place in fun yellow picture frames (or their favorite color picture frame) and display around your home.

Number Scavenger Hunt

This game can be adjusted according to the skill level of your child. For the child who is just learning how to count and recognize numbers, write the numbers 1 through 10 on a small pad of sticky notes, one number on each sheet. Then, give the pad to your child and instruct them to hunt through the house for objects that match the numbers on each note. When they find a match, they can stick the adhesive note onto the object. For example, a television that has five control knobs would be a match for the number "5," while their three-drawer dresser would be a match for "3," and If you have more than one child, you could turn this game into a race, with the winner being whoever hunts down matches for all their numbers first. For the older child who is learning addition or subtraction, you could place math problems on the sticky notes instead of the actual number. The goal would then be to solve the math problem and find objects that match up with the answers. Of course, this game could also be altered for other learning experiences, such as giving your child a sticky note pad with letters of the alphabet on them or the names of colors. It can be fun to watch your child as they play this game, so be sure to take a few photos, which you can then display in pretty triple picture frames to enjoy later.

You and your child can both have fun as you play these games and your child learns in the process.

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