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Indoor Boredom Busters
Eleven Ideas for Learning Something New

Take advantage of your indoor day to teach some basic lessons to your children in fun ways.

1. Buy a chart or open an encyclopedia to help you learn the basic muscles and bones in the body of your child or your child’s pets.
2. Learn a new language. Buy language tapes or a children’s book in a foreign language. Learn the language together.
3. Learn where all the dishes go so the children can help put away the clean dishes.
4. Discuss basic manners – how to act at a friendly house. To make this fun, compare American traditions to those of another culture; for example, never sneeze in public if you are in Austria! If you are in Japan, take off your shoes before you enter a house.
5. Learn the 50 states in America. Then learn the capitals of all the states.
6. Have some water play and learn measurements at the same time. Fill a tub with water and use different size cups and containers to teach what a cup, pint, quart, gallon looks like. You can also take this time to learn the metric system.
7. Learn patterns and sequences using colored blocks, loop cereals, or buttons. Set the objects in order: for example, set up 2 blocks, then 3 blocks. Or you can create a pattern of 1 red block, 2 green blocks, and have your child imitate the pattern.

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