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Are your kids bored and in need Batman something to occupy them, especially during the long school holidays? Sure you could chase them off to their room, but better still, why not show them how they can have great fun, while being educated and stimulated at the same time? Children's educational activities do not have to be boring. What you need is something that's fun but educational too as this has been proved to produce highly intelligent kids.

Here are a couple of ideas to start off with.

Let's get them to make their own jigsaw puzzle. All you need are some old greeting cards, or sheets of blank card, some coloring pens, paints and some scissors. 1954 Dan-Dee baseball cards using the old greeting cards, you can simply cut the greeting card into shapes; larger pieces for younger children, smaller pieces for older children. If using blank card, then let the children draw or paint Tetris they choose on the card.

When they've finished, you can cut the card into shapes as before. Now the pieces can be jumbled up and they can try to complete the original picture correctly.

For an extra twist, add numbers to the back of the jigsaw pieces in the order which it should be assembled. The pieces can be jumbled up again, turned over, and the children can join the pieces in numerical sequence. A fun game has now become a learning game, and without them even knowing it, they have improved their numeracy skills.

Kids really enjoy making things in the run up to Christmas time. They can make things to sell, to raise that all-important cash to buy Christmas presents. Or maybe they want to make presents themselves, for a more personalized gift for a loved one.

One of the old favorites would be the calendar. This can be made quite easily by even the youngest of children.

You need an A4 piece of card, a calendar pad approx. 74mm x 46mm, sticky tape, pens, crayons, etc. The only other ingredient is some imagination. Children can draw anything they wish on the card; after all it is their creation. Encourage them to think about the person that the gift is being made for; could they draw that person, their house, their pet, etc?

Once the picture is complete, simply attach the calendar pad to the bottom of the masterpiece with sticky tape. There you have it; a personalized gift that can be used for the year, then put into a frame and hung on the wall forever after. Quite a simple idea, but study the pride on a child's face when they see what they have created.

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