Time Management Games for Kids

Are you a parent who would like to teach your children about time management? If you are, you may want to share with them the importance of properly using time, as well as tips on how to go about doing so. Although you will have a number of different options, in terms of approaches taken, you may want to examine time management games for kids. For the most part, you will find that time management games for kids have a number of benefits.

As nice as it is to know that there are time management games for your kids to play, you may be looking for more information on these games. For starters, you may be curious as to what time management games are and how they can help your child. It is important to know that time management games for kids come in a number of different formats. Regardless of format, the gist of all games are to beat the timer. All players have to complete a certain task or play a game within a specific period of time.

As for time management games that you can have your children play, you will find that you can make up your own. For many parents and kids, this is fun. Making up a time management game is ideal for toddlers and preschoolers, as well as young elementary school aged children. What you can do is set a timer for a specific period of time and have your child complete an easy task during that time frame. The task can be something as simply as singing the alphabet or something as elaborate as having a treasure hunt.

For older children, you may want to turn to the internet. There are a large number of time management games available for playing online. If your child knows how to use the computer, which most school aged children and teenagers know how to do, you may want to find games that they could play online. What you will find online will vary, but your children may be able to play a timed fishing game or have a timed shopping spree. Classic arcade games are also popular and many can be considered time management games.

As for how you can find time management games to play online with your child or to let your teenager play by themselves, you will want to perform a standard internet search. Your search can include the phrases “time management games,” or “free online games.” You will likely be directed to websites, including gaming websites, that have time management games online for playing. Most of these games should be easy and free for your child or children to play. As an important side note, it is always important to monitor a child’s internet use.

As nice as it is to hear that your children can play time management games, you may be nervous about letting them do so. After all games are often associated with fun or even the wasting as time. Despite the fact that this can be true in some cases, there are a number of benefits to playing time management games with your kids or letting them play their own games. These benefits include the development of proper time management and the ability to quickly think in stressful or emergency situations.

Start a Collection

Give the children an activity that can last the entire summer and maybe beyond. Starting a collection is a good way to learn more about a topic and can be the start of a new hobby. A good summertime activity is to begin a nature collection or book.

If your child is interested in a particular collecting genre it would be best to go with that first (seashells, stamps, hockey cards, etc.) but if they don’t and you want to introduce them to the world of collecting here are some easy suggestions.

But them a scrapbook or make one with acid free paper and encourage them to find things outside that are a part of nature that can be added to their nature collection. They may decide to fill the entire book with different kinds of leaves or the same type of leaf in different shapes and color variations.

Another option is to start a pressed flower collection. This does take time to let the flowers dry out in a flower press or a heavy book. The heavier the book or the tighter the flower press the quicker the flowers will dry out and retain more of their original color.

Once a child begins collecting and getting the hang of it you may be surprised by how focused and enthusiastic they become about it. This should be encouraged, take them to the library to learn more about collecting or the items they are collecting. If they are interested in collecting an item that are of high value, try starting out at the smaller (and cheaper) end of the scale. As their interest grows so can the value of items they collect. It will make gift buying easy for relatives and friends too if they know your child has a specific collection.

A Family Time Capsule

Preserve the memories of your children’s youth while making a fun keepsake. At the beginning of the summer choose and decorate a container to store all the mementos you will collect to put inside a time capsule. When choosing a container, it should be airtight, watertight and sturdy.

After a container has been chosen the next step is to decide how long it will be sealed for. The longer the better but be warned young children may want to open it up the day after it is put away! The best thing to do is put it in a place that they don’t know about or cannot access. A good time frame is 5-10 years.

Sit down with the children and explain to them that you want to preserve the memories that they are going to make that summer and brainstorm some of the things that can go into it.

Some ideas are:

* Photographs (get some photo-safe envelopes to store them in for protection)
* Crafts
* Toys
* Awards won
* Letters
* If you include any DVD’s or other types of media you may want to consider how they will be used in the future – it is possible they may be obsolete if you are storing your time capsule for 10 years or more into the future.

If you are going to store your time capsule for years and years make sure you leave yourself some form of reminder to take the time capsule with you if you move (especially if you have decided to bury it in the backyard).

Keep the items in the time capsule personal and meaningful to your family. You can always check a history book or newspaper archive to find out about the news of the day – unless of course your family was in the news.

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