Attention Games : 101 Fun, Easy Games That Help Kids Learn To Focus

by Barbara Sher ( ); Illustrator: Ralph Butler

• ISBN13: 9780787985820
• ISBN10: 0787985821
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2006-10-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

If you want to focus children's attention, you first have to capture their interest. Attention Games is filled with interesting and child-tested activities that can help children of all ages become better at focusing and paying attention. By sharing the upbeat, joyful activities in Attention Games, you can enhance your child's intelligence, boost his confidence, increase his ability to concentrate on one thing for long periods, and show that you care. Developed by Barbara Sherparent, teacher, play therapy specialist and pediatric occupational therapistthese activities are specially designed to encourage kids to expand their powers of attention in ways that will help them throughout their lives.

Table of Contents

Introduction

How to Contact the Author

Games for Infants

Follow My Face

Stick Out Your Tongue

The Glory of Hands

Sock on a Bottle

Perfect Rattles

First Exercises

Visually Amused

A Light Touch

Can You Hear What I Hear?

A Very Merry Unbirthday

Pokey Pudding Hole

Dangling Toys

Bat the Ball

High Chair Fling

Ice Cube on a Tray

If It Doesn't Hurt-It's a Toy

A Spotlight in the Dark

What's out There?

Where'd It Go?

Games for 1- to 3-Year-Olds

Bracelet of Leaves

The Enchantment of Water

Follow the Floating Feather

The Knocking Game

Ping-Pong Balls and Coffee Cans

Surprise Me

The Feely Game

What Is That Sound?

From Beginning to End

Being a Radio

Catch a Falling Scarf

Instant Picture

You've Got Mail

Kaleidoscope

Magnet Hunt

Put a Lid on It

Ooh-Smell This!

What's in the Sock?

Games for 3- to 6-Year-Olds

My Story Is the Best Story

Another Viewpoint

Art de Deux

Batting Practice

The Happening Book

Lessons from the Rocks

Mismatched Tea Party

Plenty Peanut Hunt

Regroup Time

Shadow Games

Deck of Cards

Hand on Top

How Many?

Indoor Picture Hunt

Mexican Yo-Yo

Mini-Montessori

Going on a Monster Hunt

Paint the World

The Perfect Gifts

Sounds Right

Word Matching

Games for 6- to 12-Year-Olds

All the Things You Can Think Of

Back Writing

Belly Counts

Expanding Interest

Focused Fidgeting

Guess How Old

How Do You Look?

Junk Box Art

Name the Sounds

Navigator

Police Report

Ring of String

Shelf Paper Story

Thinking Box

I'm the Teacher

My Mind Is a TV Screen

Paper Plethora

Potato Puppets

Sensory Matching

Tile Painting

Backwards Time Management

Toe Stepping

Toothpick Art

Games for Teens

Accentuate the Positive

Achy Breaky Heart

Annoyed with the Flower Bud

Five Good Moments

Getting the Priorities

My Special Things

I'm Like That Sometimes

Imagine That!

Send Joy to Bulgaria

Life Is a Movie, and You Are the Star!

List Your Options

Name the Consequences

Postcard Diaries

Scriptwriter

Self-Portraits

Ten Breaths

The Home Videographer

Waiter, Take My Order

Flip-Flop Stamps

Word Puzzles

Index

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