Book-Related Events and Deals for Kids at Home

I love how many people are stepping up to help in these weird times. A lot of children’s book authors have been reading from the books on Facebook and elsewhere, celebrities are reading books, authors are offering drawing lessons and more.

There’s a great list of many of these events and videos at We Are Teachers. Events are organized by kids’ age group and further by author name.

If your child needs some new books to listen to, Audible is offering a collection of free audiobooks for kids. There are classics as well as newer options, arranged by age group. You’ll also find books in Spanish, German, French, Italian and Japanese, if you want to slip some language learning in with your entertainment.

[Photo: Mo Willems Lunch Doodles.]

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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