Grownups: this is a GREAT vocabulary builder, and cheating -- helping them along by teaching them a few new words -- is DEFINITELY encouraged.
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Similar to the ordinary version of twenty questions. Optional: don't bother to count the number of questions -- just end the round when everyone gives up. Otherwise, the next person to be questioned is the one who guesses correctly.
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This is a fun creative exercise because you can use absolutely anything to decorate with. Try macaroni, rice, cereal, torn or cut up pieces of colored paper -- anything that's not the usual sequins and feathers, although sequins and feathers are a lot of fun, too.
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Once your little one builds this one, encourage him or her to build their own. Have them take a look at how it's constructed -- very simply.
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My oldest daughter actually asked me the other day: how come we never get punished That s when I knew I was doing it, well, sort of right.
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