Winner: Klutz Press!
Get more fun and family interaction out of those long miles and actually learn
something along the way with Klutz Press' innovative car games and activities.
Here's a "Klutz Kurriculum" of fun and brain-boosting activities to take
along on your family road trips:
Road Trip Trivia: A Big Book of Backseat Brainteasers
This combination flip chart and score card teaches fun trivia facts about
insects, anatomy, plants, history, science, foreign languages, and will
even improve your vocabulary! There are 286 questions to keep you guessing
such as: "How many bones does an adult shark have?" "Why
does the moon glow?" "What are you scared of if you have
scolionophobia?" Buy the book to find the answers to these questions
and more - you're certain to agree it's a vast improvement over, "Are
we there yet?"
Klutz Wraps
Wraps are the most ingenious, portable education tool ever invented for learning
math facts and reading skills. The bookmark sized plastic game board is notched
so that the player can use an attached piece of string to wrap around each
different page of activities while following a number sequence and pattern of
math facts, or matching words and pictures to improve reading proficiency.
The back of each game page is imprinted with the correct pattern that the wound
string should ultimately resemble if the player knows his or her facts. Math Wraps
are designed for grades K-4, and teach basic counting skills, addition, subtraction,
and multiplication. Reading Wraps are designed for emerging readers and include
phonics, spelling, grammar and vocabulary. It's not all drill and practice though -
each colorful game page contains a funny joke or interesting trivia to delight the
learners! (Note: Non-readers will need a little help from mom or dad to understand
the instructions and jokes.)
Kids Travel: A Backseat Survival Kit
Learn about U.S. geography by searching for car license plates. Practice your spelling
with Hangman! Explore the pseudo-science of palmistry. Take a driver's test, solve a
mystery, and communicate with American Sign Language. Hone your spy skills by detecting
handwriting forgeries. Draw a comic superhero! Pass the miles by making friendship
bracelets and hair wraps. There's even acollection of car songs for backseat Divas!
Amuse your kids with this complete curriculum for the road.
The Buck Book: All Sorts of Things To Do With A Dollar Bill - Besides Spend It
Besides Spend It. - Use a dollar bill to teach social sciences while engaging in
creative arts! Learn the symbolic meaning of the Great Seal of the United States
and why we call dollar bills "bucks." Then, follow the step-by-step
instructions to fold your dollar bill into a bow tie, a ring, or a jumping frog!
Imagine the look on the toll-booth attendants face when you hand them currency
shaped like a peacock! You don't have a dollar bill? No worries - one comes with
the book!
Yes or No
Klutz's new, travel-sized question and answer game series is perfect for use in the
car. The plastic game board contains a spiral bound book of game cards that ask
questions testing the player's knowledge of math and language arts. Flip the
"yes or no" switches on the game board to answer the questions. Then,
turn the board over to check your answers. The Yes or No series is designed for
"really smart" kids ages 4 to 8. Reading skills are required to play
the game independently - making it an ideal cooperative game for the whole family.
The Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book
This book includes over 50 science activities (including the materials needed to do
them) that were developed by the science museum, The Exploratorium. Learn about
magnetism, light waves, bacteria, optical illusions, and more. Many of the activities
can be done in the car -- a few will be easier to do off-road.
A Super-Sneaky, Double-Crossing, Up, Down, Round & Round Maze Book
Twenty-five endlessly re-usable mazes to trace with your fingertip. For ages
4 and up.
Bonus: Make your own mazes with this
Free maze generator.
Print them out and take them along in the car!
Books In A Cup
This cup is packed with four unique 40-page activity books, two sheets of
stickers, and a pencil with an eraser. Each cup fits neatly into a cup
holder and provides a long, tall drink of backseat fun. For ages 8 and up.
The Etch-A-Sketch Book
This book provides the classic drawing toy and 12 vinyl pages that cling to
the Etch A Sketch screen, creating game boards, mazes, challenges, and more.
For ages 6 and up.
The Cootie Catcher Book
A clever little book about the classic kids' fortune-teller, with 20
pre-printed, tear-em-out-and-fold-em-up pages. Plus instructions on how to
make your own cootie catchers and the fortunes to go inside. For ages 6 and
up.
Bonus: Print out a pattern and instructions for making
your own cootie catcher and
along with some fortune ideas.
Road Trip Trivia
This powerful boredom-buster is full of trivia in a game-quiz format. Here's
how it works: Each pages has five questions. Answer each question by sliding
the peg to the multiple-choice answer you think is right. Flip the book over
to see the correct answers. Does pondering fundamentally inconsequential
information like this make the miles fly? Do bedbugs bark? (Answers: Yes and,
believe it or not, yes.) For ages 9 and up.
Activity Book: The Only Coloring, Puzzle, Game, Dot-to Dot Activity Book
You'll Ever Need Contains pages of crayon-and-paper play, hidden pictures, mazes,
fold-ups, games, and other stuff. Includes 5 colorful soft wax pencils for coloring
inside or outside the lines. For ages 4 and up.
Bonus: Use this data base of coloring pages
to print out pictures on any subject. Then, bring them along in the car for hours
of backseat fun.
Sticker Book: The Most Incredible, Outrageous, Packed-To-The-Gills Bulging-At-The-Seams Sticker Book You'Ve Ever Seen
A book filled with over 450 stickers along with instructions for making
one-of-a-kind envelopes, boxes and cards and decorating them with (you
guessed it) stickers. For ages 3 and up.
Bonus: Make Your Own Stickers to
bring along in the car!
Cat's Cradle: A Book of String Figures
Get instructions for 5 different string figures, charmingly illustrated.
Comes with string loop -- all you need to bring is ten fingers. For ages 6
and up.
Wax Strings
Just like "Wikki Stix," wax strings are just sticky enough to cling
to table trays and car windows, but never permanently. Shape all kinds of fun
designs. This no-mess, take-it-anywhere, quiet-kid kit is the perfect backseat
companion. For ages 5 and up.
Bonus: Find more creative ideas you can do with
Wikki Stix and Wax Strings.
Pipe Cleaners Gone Crazy: A Complete Guide to Bending Fuzzy Sticks
Step-by-step instructions for making pipe cleaner animals, jewelry, people
and more. Comes with enough pipe cleaners (in a variety of sizes and colors)
to make every project in the book. Ages 4-8.
Bonus: Get instructions for how to make
Pipe Cleaner People!
String Games From Around The World
Get string games, introduced by seven real-live kids from each of seven
incredibly diverse cultures. Complete with gorgeous full-color photographs
and watercolor paintings -- and a tie-dyed string loop. For ages 6 and up.
Nancy Cassidy's KidsSongs: The Sing Along Songbook
One of the most popular children's recording artists in the country offers
you a two CD package with a brand new, full color book of lyrics! Includes
favorites like You Gotta Sing, Shake Your Sillies Out, Chicken Lips and
Day-O. Ages: 0 months and up.
Bonus: Learn more about Nancy Cassidy!
Doodle Faces
Everything you need to doodle. The reinforced back cover holds a 35 foot
roll of paper and also serves as a sturdy built-in work surface. Do a
doodle, pull the paper down, tear off your masterpiece neatly and start all
over again. Includes pencil that clips neatly into its holster for storage.
For ages 6 and up.
Draw The Marvel Comics Super Heroes
Marvel fans can draw their favorite heroes right in their very own book.
There are tips and pointers galore, along with tracing vellum overlaying
full-color artwork to help create just-as-good-as-the-comics artwork. For
ages 6 and up.
Especially for Little Kids
Chicken Socks: Highlight This Book
Comes with a five-colors-in-one fun highlighter pen to uncover dot-to-dots,
do mazes, find hidden pictures, and do coloring pages. For ages 4 and up.
Chicken Socks: Magnetic A to Z Activity Book
A brilliant cross between a book and a refrigerator door. Three of this
book's pages are heavy-gauge steel, silk-screened with helpful art. The
other 12 pages are cardstock and filled with the familiar Klutz wit and
imagination. The magnets themselves go from A to Z -- literally: 26
custom-made, brightly colored, finger-friendly letters. Early readers are
led through lettering and simple word-building, as well as a little recess
time making letter pictures. (Turns out you can make a fine caterpillar out
of a cap B and D. Who knew?) Comes with 26 all-capital magnets in 4 custom
colors and 3 metal pages. For ages 4 and up.
Chicken Socks: Amazing Lacing
A book full of new ideas for a classic activity. Comes with punched, die-cut
pages for easy lacing and 10 easy-to-use laces in a variety of materials and
colors. For ages 4 and up.
Chicken Socks: Rescue Trucks
This books pages fold out into extra-long highways -- full-color playscapes
featuring all sorts of calamities: fallen bridges, flooded highways, forest
fires, and so on. Flip the fold-outs over and a new set of playscapes (with
black and white art) invite a lot of color-me-in time. Klutz threw in
build-'em-yourself instructions for things like paper tube tunnels and
shoebox bridges. Last but not least, are the rescue vehicles themselves: a
fire engine, police cruiser, tow truck and snow plow. It's an entire
search-and-rescue team, lap-top style. Written For ages 4 and up.
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