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Kids love animals as much as they love puzzles and silly word games. Barnyard Games & Puzzles follows the success of Horse Games & Puzzles for Kids and The Petting Farm Poster Book. Full of lively drawings, it offers page after page of word games and picture puzzles, as well as jokes, riddles, and word play.
Puzzle books for kids are often either too simplistic or too frustratingly difficult for young solvers. Barnyard Games & Puzzles was created by two experienced puzzle makers who have designed a variety of puzzles specifically for five-to eight-year-old readers.
With nearly 100 puzzles, the book clusters simpler games in the front and draws the reader on to more complex ones. Connect-the-dots pictures and find-the-hidden-items drawings will entice younger children, while the mix of crossword puzzles, fill-in-the-blanks, mazes, word searches, logic puzzles, codes, and other games will provide hours of fun and delight for both beginning and more experienced readers.
Each illustrated page has lots to look at and plenty of room for small fingers to write. A pair of funny farmyard friends wander through the pages giving directions and telling silly jokes. Kids love animals as much as they love puzzles and silly word games. Barnyard Games & Puzzles follows the success of Horse Games & Puzzles for Kids and The Petting Farm Poster Book. Full of lively drawings, it offers page after page of word games and picture puzzles, as well as jokes, riddles, and word play. Puzzle books for kids are often either too simplistic or too frustratingly difficult for young solvers. Barnyard Games & Puzzles was created by two experienced puzzle makers who have designed a variety of puzzles specifically for five-to eight-year-old readers.
With nearly 100 puzzles, the book clusters simpler games in the front and draws the reader on to more complex ones. Connect-the-dots pictures and find-the-hidden-items drawings will entice younger children, while the mix of crossword puzzles, fill-in-the-blanks, mazes, word searches, logic puzzles, codes, and other games will provide hours of fun and delight for both beginning and more experienced readers. Each illustrated page has lots to look at and plenty of room for small fingers to write. A pair of funny farmyard friends wander through the pages giving directions and telling silly jokes. Barnyard Games & Puzzles is sure to appeal to country and city kids alike....
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Riddle Me This!
Can you name four things you eat with a spoon? The largest state in the USA? The sound made by a lion?
If so, this brand-new collection of word searches, fill-in-the-blanks, crossword puzzles, and word scrambles is just for you! Full of riddles and jokes, these puzzles are not only fun, but funny, too. A special introduction by Will Shortz, the crossword editor of The New York Times, points out just how fun these games can be.
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Three and four year olds will love the challenge of Easy First Puzzles, which tests their familiarity with everyday words and concepts. By completing a maze, they'll help Bo Peep find her sheep. "Picture Crossword" fun begins with an image, such as a bird, house, and school desk; the object, then, is to write its name in the grid. Other activities include an "Up in the Air" connect the dots featuring things you'll see in the sky and "Shoe In," where kids match up shoes (such as ballerina slippers) with their likely owners.
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Slightly older children get their chance to show off their smarts, as they unscramble words, decode messages, and fill in crosswords. "Round About" contains a list of round things; kids have to fit each word into a diagram until the whole grid is filled in. Or they can "Go for It!" with a word search where every entry begins with the letter "G." Every enjoyable puzzle will have new readers effortlessly honing their skills.
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Learning vocabulary becomes a game for 5- and 6-year-olds, as they go about solving these puzzles. They’ll love the challenge of unscrambling words, decoding messages, and filling in crossword puzzles that test their familiarity with everyday words and concepts. Everything is designed to draw youngsters in, from the two similar pictures of a birthday party-(they’ll circle the differences)-to the maze where they’ll trace a path to the pool.
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For more than 50 years, CLUE, Hasbro’s popular board game, has kept everyone guessing with irresistibly clever whodunits. Now the fun continues with these 60 mini-mysteries, all related to the characters, weapons, or rooms made famous in the original. Why did the telephone suddenly go dead while Mr. Boddy was talking to Mr. Green? Where did the blood on Mrs. White’s apron came from? As they try to solve these conundrums, young sleuths will test their ability to decipher clues, break codes, and become word detectives. What’s happening in the ballroom when Mrs. Peacock sees a strange man with his arms around Miss Scarlet? Replace each symbol with its corresponding letter to find out. Colonel Mustard receives a note about a lost item; to read what it says, change each letter to the one that comes just BEFORE it in the alphabet. Of course, answers are provided for those who need a peek!
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It’s never too early for kids to start solving puzzles! Not only is it fun, but it’s just the type of brain workout and skill-building young minds need. Every one of these enjoyable games fosters letter recognition—which is great preparation for reading. Here’s what children can do: At a “Tee Party,” circle the two tee-shirts that say the same words—and the one that’s different. Join the “B Club” by picking out the pictures of objects that start with this letter. Compare a three-letter word with a four-letter one, and write down the extra letter that distinguishes them. Cheerful illustrations throughout make this extra-appealing! ...
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A yummy word search set in a bakery, a game with a magic square, a “sum situation” where numbers form a word code: these and many more supersizzling “brain games” will entertain kids for hours! ...
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Matching drivers with their cars, with the help of some tricky license plates? That “auto” be fun…and it’s just one of the cool brainteasers in this mind-mashing collection! Play the “name game” by using a name to fill in the blanks and complete a word. Or enjoy “rhyme time” by answering clever clues with two-word rhyming phrases. There are hours of enjoyment on these pages! ...
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Three- and four-year-olds will really enjoy this fun mental workout that focuses on learning letters. They’ll have a great time solving a rainy day maze to take two toddlers to their umbrellas; completing grids with the words for favorite vegetables; and circling the letters in each line that have a check mark next to them—and combining them to create a word. It’s a wonderful first step to mastering reading:and a great bonding experience for adult and child. ...
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They evolved long before the dinosaurs and outnumber humans by more than a million to one. What are they? Insects! Popular puzzlemaster Helene Hovanac, with Kate Ritchey, is here to present a huge amount of information about these tiny creatures. Kids will love learning some of the coolest facts ever about everything from bees and beetles to bloodsuckers and butterflies. Even better, young entomologists also get to flex their brain muscles as they solve puzzles to uncover even more creepy-crawly tidbits. They’ll fill in blanks and grids, create new words from existing ones, crack codes, answer trivia questions, and more—and every time they come up with the right answer, they’ll actually uncover a new fact! ...
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Perfect for five- and six-year-olds, this appealing collection is full of fun, with riddles to solve, grids to fill in, and word games to play. In “Book Reviews,” children have to match up author names with book titles: they’re punning pairs, with BILL E. GOAT as the writer of LIFE ON A FARM, for example. “A Symbol Puzzle” provides a simple introduction to cryptology. And can young solvers find the state names (Alaska, Indiana, Ohio) hidden in some silly sentences? What a great way to build language skills! ...
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They’re every kid’s favorite: dinosaurs! So what could be more entertaining than a super combination of facts and puzzles about these appealing prehistoric creatures? This book has an amazing amount of information about some of the biggest animals who ever inhabited our planet. Find out about the different classes of dinosaur, from Cerapods to Thyreophorans; then fit a group of words into a grid to learn when dinosaur classifications change. Rearrange letters to see why dinos had to keep moving around. Solve a crossword to discover where in the world ornithopod fossils turned up. Every page tells kids something they want to know! ...
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