Friday, February 27, 2009

How to Play Marbles - Part 2

(Part two in a five part series on marble games for kids. . .)

Few kids' activities are as versatile, durable and long lasting as marble games. Versatile because there are so many different ways to play. Durable because marbles don't wear down. And long lasting because marble games grow with your child through the years. Best of all, marble activities hold your child's full attention and strengthen the ability to stay focused on 1967 Topps baseball cards activity.

Game 1: Start with three marbles each. Each person takes one marble and sits on opposite sides of a rug. Shoot your marble a little way toward your child's marble. Now she shoots her marble a little way toward your marble. Keep approaching each other's marble in small increments. If at any time during the game one of you shoots your marble off the rug, you lose. When one of you feels confident enough, take a shot at the other person's marble. If you click the other marble, you win the marble. Add it to your collection. If you miss by a small margin, chances are your marble will make an easy target. Keep playing until one person is out of marbles.

Game 2: Make a loop with kite string and place it in the middle of a carpeted area. If you have an area rug with closed shape patterns in it, then use one of the closed shapes as the Superman comics area (and forget about the kite string). Sit two or three feet from the target area opposite one another. Let your child pick twenty marbles with the same feature- all red, for example. You pick twenty marbles with a different feature-all green, for example. You each take five marbles from your total collection to begin play. Now take turns shooting one marble toward the target area. Knocking the other person's marbles out of the target area can be part of the strategy. After you have each used your five marbles, count who has more marbles left in the target area. That person wins all ten marbles used in that round. Resume Ouija boards with five marbles each. Continue until one person's marbles run out. (This game can be played by more than two people.)

Marble games are a great way to spend quality time with your child. There's Batman to plug in, no batteries, buzzers or loud noises-just good old fashioned fun you can enjoy for years to come. Have fun!

Anthony Vecchioni runs Spaghetti Box Kids---a parenting site that offers creative play ideas to enhance child learning. For more great kids activities visit: http://spaghettiboxkids.com

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Magic Tricks For You

There are already many magicians House of Mystery can be found anywhere. The reason behind this is that there are actually many people who are amazed with magic tricks.

Thus, the audience for the tricks would already be given and Godzilla will not have a hard time looking for the people who will be interested with your craft. However, what is left for a magician to do would be to make sure that he is able to do the tricks the right way and there are also more tricks that should be learned so that the audience will be kept interested with what you are doing. If you want to learn a kind of trick, then there are many things that you should know.

First, there is a scientific fact behind the magic tricks. Although you know that there is something behind the trick that would be able to explain the event, you should be able to make it as if it is really something true and magical. To start off, your hands can move faster than your eye. There are many tricks that depend on the way that you move your hands and the way that you can control the interest of the person viewing your trick. Thus, you have to know where they may be looking and what they are thinking while you are performing. You should also know how to misdirect the audience to the other things so that you can perform your trick.

To do this, you will Littlechap to practice. The magic tricks would depend on many small details but no matter how small they are, they are still important in each performance. A small lapse in your trick can mean big in your performance so you should keep on practicing to ensure that you are already perfect during your actual routine.

When it is already time to perform, timing and actual execution would be the two of the most important things. You should keep your proper timing so that your magic tricks would not be a Wolverine And when you are an audience, you will be amazed by the tricks and you will have to think on possible means on how it was done. But when it is actually revealed to you, you will know that there are more things that can amazed with and this can be all linked with science. You will have to start with the simple tricks but the more complex ones are still connected to the simpler tricks. Thus, you have to keep them the right way and have your simple magic tricks mastered during every performance. Focus and interest would be needed if you want to learn the trick for your own.

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