This race is much funnier if there are only a few contestants. There should be only two teams, with two on a team, the first one on each team being provided with a kiddy kar. These first two riders are asked to turn their cars around so that they are facing away from the goal, and then sit on their cars with their backs to the goal. When the starting signal is given, they start racing to the goal, backwards. When they reach this goal they are to return to the starting point, going backwards of course, and give up their kiddy kars to the second members of their teams. These second victims run the race in the same inverted order.
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Hobby Horse Race
There are seldom more than two players on a team, that being sufficient ! The first one of each team is supplied with a hobby-horse. When the signal is given, these riders start riding their horses to the goal. If they ever reach it, they are to return and give their horses to the other member of their team. Experience proves that most second riders never get a chance to ride, for too many first riders fall by the wayside!
Nose Push Race
If contestants in this race are expected to look respectable for the rest of the party, a sheet should be provided for the race-course. There are not more than three contestants, each one of them being provided with a peanut, and, we hope, a long and practical nose. Contestants are asked to kneel at one end of the sheet, put their peanuts on the sheet before them, and when the signal is given, to push the peanuts to the other end of the sheet and back, using their noses as the pushers, their hands being clasped behind them.
The winner is not the only one who deserves a prize in this contest!
Siamese Twins Race
Children are paired off into couples, the two members of a team having their backs to each other, with their hands joined at the side. One of them is facing the goal. At the signal, all teams start racing to the goal and return, their method of locomotion being anything they choose. Usually they try to run, but they soon get over that foolishness, and finally discover that the best and safest means of getting there is to hop, both members of a team hopping at the same time. The relay plan may be used.
There is no prize good enough for the winners of this race!
Relay Races
In several cases a suggestion is made to the effect that the relay plan may be used. When this is used, all the children are divided into groups of equal size, members of a group standing in lines or columns or couples, as the case demands. When either the first runner or the first couple has run the course, the second contestants are touched off, and then the third and fourth, and so on until all members of a team have run the race. The team whose last runner or couple first finishes the required stunt, gets the prize as the winning team.
Relay races are particularly good for large groups, for a great many children can take part in a race which requires comparatively little space.
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Find the fox puzzle...
Find the fox before he eats the gingerbread boy. |
The Gingerbread Boy
Puzzle-Find The Fox
by Helen Hudson
The little old woman, and little old man
Follow Gingerbread Boy as fast as they can,
But he quickly eludes them as onward he hurries;
And cat, dog and pig and a hen hen then worries.
But alas, for our boastful and bold little friend!
With wiley old fox he soon meets his end!
If with your sharp eyes you search over this sheet
Old Reynard himself you will very soon meet.
Sunday, January 1, 2023
Heidi's Puzzle
Sunday, July 3, 2022
Find The Fish Puzzle
Find Columbia Puzzle
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Thirty Feet! How Many Do You Know?
Sunday, July 19, 2020
Whose Eyes Are These?
- Eye of Solitary Frog
- "stalk eye" of Crab
- Eye of the Toad
- Whirligig Beetle Eyes
- The Chameleon's Eye
- Eyes of the Snail on Stalks
- Cat's Eye
- Moth's Eye
- Eye of A Dog
- Spider Eyes
- Eagle's Eye
- Grasshopper's Eye
- Sheep's Eye
- Eye of the Fly
- The Cow's Eye
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Working With Pattern Blocks
The Pattern Blocks includes multiple copies of six shapes in the following colors:
- Equilateral triangles are green. In geometry, an equilateral triangle is a triangle in which all three sides are equal. In the familiar Euclidean geometry, equilateral triangles are also equiangular; that is, all three internal angles are also congruent to each other and are each 60°. They are regular polygons, and can therefore also be referred to as regular triangles.
- Rhombus tiles that can be matched with two of the green triangles are blue. In Euclidean geometry, a rhombus(◊) (plural rhombi or rhombuses) is a simple (non-self-intersecting) quadrilateral whose four sides all have the same length. Another name is equilateral quadrilateral, since equilateral means that all of its sides are equal in length. The rhombus is often called a diamond, after the diamonds suit in playing cards which resembles the projection of an octahedral diamond, or a lozenge, though the former sometimes refers specifically to a rhombus with a 60° angle (see Polyiamond), and the latter sometimes refers specifically to a rhombus with a 45° angle. Every rhombus is a parallelogram and a kite. A rhombus with right angles is a square.
- Trapezoid that can be matched with three of the green triangles are red. In Euclidean geometry, a convex quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel sides is referred to as a trapezoid (/ˈtræpəzɔɪd/) in American and Canadian English but as a trapezium (/trəˈpiːziəm/) in English outside North America. The parallel sides are called the bases of the trapezoid and the other two sides are called the legs or the lateral sides (if they are not parallel; otherwise there are two pairs of bases).
- Hexagon that can be matched with six of the green triangles are yellow. In geometry, a hexagon (from Greek ἕξ hex, "six" and γωνία, gonía, "corner, angle") is a six sided polygon or 6-gon. The total of the internal angles of any hexagon is 720°
- Squares with the same side-length as the green triangle are orange. In geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90-degree angles, or (100-gradian angles or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle in which two adjacent sides have equal length.
- Narrow rhombus with a 30° angle and the same side-length as the green triangle are white or beige.
- Set up a learning center using a computer, laptop or tablet with access to https://thriftyscissors.blogspot.com pages only. The content must not be transferred to an alternative web location.
- Provide a couple of sets of Pattern Blocks for each work space and paper with writing tools as well.
- Pick and choose the questions or actions that you want your students to answer or manipulate according to their age/abilities.
- To enlarge the images, simple click on the image and you will be able to see a larger version on a dark background.
- Manipulate pattern blocks in order to form larger, simple shapes. (level one) and check your answers here.
- Manipulate pattern blocks to make geometric puzzles. (level two) and check your answers here.
Try My Figurative Designs For Pattern Blocks: Plus questions and activities...
- two kissing fish
- flower garden
- a super hero shield
- a scarecrow
- the court jester
- a simple Christmas tree
- a Christmas tree with a star
- a red bird pull toy
- hot air balloon
- a red stocking with a green patch
- a Christmas wreath
- St. Nickolas
- baby Jesus in a manger
- poinsettia in a planter
- a praying angel
- a soccer ball
- a cluster of grapes
- a water lily
Also, do not alter the photographs in any way. Altering photos from this web journal will get you into a heap of trouble with the law. These photos are not included here for the purpose of creating a new collection or a duplicate one on an alternative web site. Copyrighted works must be altered in such a way as to render them "unrecognizable content" in order for the material to be reproduced without censure. In other words, you must make your own unique content from the very beginning, in order to keep copyright law.
Educators, parents, and social workers from any country may use the photographs for hard copy within the context of a classroom environment only. The photographs should never be reproduced for sale. I have not authorized any person to charge money for profits from these photographs. They are intended for children to learn from freely but not for republishing on third party websites or printing out to sell for monetary gain!
- Jessica's Patterns - printable designs
- Colorful Snowflake Designs
- Playing and Learning with Pattern Blocks
Where to purchase Pattern Blocks:
- Amazon sells sets (250) of wooden Pattern Blocks
- Lakeshore learning sells plastic Pattern Blocks
- Melissa & Doug have a cute set of pattern blocks that come inside a wooden puzzle set
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
DIY Apple Card Games for Early Learners
Alphabet Apple Cards made from die cuts. |
- Spell out simple sight words like: GO, MY, ME, AT, TO, BE, NO, YES
- Put the alphabet cards in order and recite the letters out loud.
- Find a specific letter or remove a specific letter.
- Identify the vowel letters?
- Which letter is at the beginning of your name?
- Pick out a letter and make it's sound.
- How many letters are in the alphabet? Count them to find out.
Homemade Seriation Apple Cards. |
- Match the pairs, each pair should share the same color and include one cut half apple and one whole apple
- Display four apples, three alike and one different. Which apple doesn't belong?
- Display five or six cards and ask the child to identify specific colors, specific cut halves, or whole apples.
- Spread out all the cards face up and ask the child to make a book, four matching cards exactly alike.
- Spread all the cards face down in the pattern of a grid and have the children take turns turning two cards face up. If the two cards each player turns face up match they can take the matching pair and put it into their own personal stack. If the two cards do not match, the player must return them face down to the grid. The player with the most pairs by the end of the game wins. Players must turn cards over until none are left in the grid.
Pictures of the Whole & Half Apple Card set. Far left, Match the pairs., Next, count the red apples., Center, make a book., Far Right, Which apple doesn't belong. |
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Five Dots Drawing Game
Examples of "Five Dots" Drawing Game. |
Sunday, November 17, 2013
"Cinderella" at Thrifty Scissors
Visit the Thrifty Scissors Today! Pin this image only please. |
In this coloring page Cinderella's step-mother made her do all the hard work of the house; scrub the floor, polish the grates, wait at the table, and wash up the plates and dishes. |
This coloring page shows that Cinderella soon dried her tears; and when her godmother said, "Fetch me a pumpkin," she ran and got the largest she could find. |
Color Cinderella as she jumps up from her seat by the side of the Prince, rushes across the room, and flies down stairs, at the stroke of midnight. |
In this coloring page, the King's son decides he will marry the lady who is able to wear the glass slipper which was dropped at the late ball at the royal palace. |
More Cinderella Coloring Pages:
More "Cinderella Stories" Online:
- Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
- Cinderella" (Aschenputtel)
- Cinderella Ballet, Bolshoi Theater, 1960
- Judi Dench and Julie Andrews version of Cinderella made in 1957
- Lotte Reiniger's Cinderella from 1922
- "Cinderella" book reading
- Kelsey imagines that she is Cinderella (adorable)
- "Cinderella" Christmas Panto
Modern Versions of "Cinderella" movie trailers:
- "Ever After" starring Drew Barrymore
- Remake of Cinderella starring Whitney Houston
- "Elle: A Modern Day Cindrella Tale"
- "A Cinderella Story" starring Hillary Duff
- "Ella Enchanted" starring Anne Hathaway
- Three Wishes For Cinderella 1973, (full film)
- Cinderella Around the World
- Project Gutenberg compilation, including original Cendrillon
- Photos and illustrations from early Cinderella stage versions, including one with Ellaline Terriss and one with Phyllis Dare
- Parallel German-English text of brothers Grimm's version in ParallelBook format
- Follow my Fairy Tale Theme Board for Early Learning Centers
- My favorite version of Cinderella from my childhood, "Three nuts or Three wishes for Cinderella." Visit the fan site here.
Print and cut-out the mystery jigsaw to find out who is pictured. |
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Feelings Faces Game for Halloween
Teach young learners about emotions with these fun little free Jack-O-Lantern faces by Grimm. |
Crying Jack-O-Lanterns shown crying. Print out the patterns twice to make this feelings face game by Kathy Grimm. |
Learn more about how to use facial expressions in order to develop social emotional skills watch the video below by Childswork Childsplay. You can purchase their game, "The Understanding Faces Game," here.
Monday, September 9, 2013
Craft an Edible Jack-O-Lantern Bingo Game
- How to make a recycled bubble wrap travel game
- Edible Bingo Game using Cheez-It Scrable crackers
- Sight Word Bingo
Saturday, May 11, 2013
What Are Tangrams?
- Tangram worksheets by I.D.E.A.S.
- "Tangram" by Enrique Zeleny, Wolfram Demonstrations Project
- "New Tangram paradoxes" by Gianni A. Sarcone, Archimedes Laboratory Project