Kids Around the World Play! : The Best Fun and Games from Many Lands (Kids Around the World)

Book Description
Play games from all around the globe! Learn to play Mexican kickball. Practice throwing jackstones the way kids do in Kenya. Discover how to construct a galimoto (wire toy from Malawi) with pipe cleaners. With Kids Around the World Play!, you’ll have a great time exploring the traditions of other cultures while you sharpen your wits with the memory game from South Africa called dithwai, or challenge your racing skills in the South Korean flower relay, or make your own cool bilboquet, a toy from France. Filled with games and activities from places near and far, including China, Japan, india, Mexico, Bolivia, italy, and Russia, among many others, this exciting collection also gives you plenty of fascinating facts about the history and culture of each country. All the toys and games can be made or played with just a few simple materials easily found around the house. So get ready for tons of fun and excitement while you discover just how much you have in common with kids around the world!


From the Back Cover
Play games from all around the globe! Learn to play Mexican kickball. Practice throwing jackstones the way kids do in Kenya. Discover how to construct a galimoto (wire toy from Malawi) with pipe cleaners. With Kids Around the World Play!, you’ll have a great time exploring the traditions of other cultures while you sharpen your wits with the memory game from South Africa called dithwai, or challenge your racing skills in the South Korean flower relay, or make your own cool bilboquet, a toy from France. Filled with games and activities from places near and far, including China, Japan, india, Mexico, Bolivia, italy, and Russia, among many others, this exciting collection also gives you plenty of fascinating facts about the history and culture of each country. All the toys and games can be made or played with just a few simple materials easily found around the house. So get ready for tons of fun and excitement while you discover just how much you have in common with kids around the world!


About the Author
ARLETTE N. BRAMAN is a former teacher who has written articles for kids in such magazines as W.O.W., The Friend, and Pen & Ink. She is also the author of Wiley’s Kids Around the World Create!, Kids Around the World Cook!, and Traditional Native American Arts and Activities.


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A lively read that's a great choice for elementary-school libraries, this book shows our Nintendo-crazed kids that there are plenty of ways to have fun. From Mexican kickball to Japanese hopscotch, from gulam chor to tiu-u, the book offers simple instructions and game rules, illustrated with cozy black-and-white drawings showing the kids of Kenya playing jackstones or New Caledonian children showing off their string pictures. The author also serves up some interesting games history, such as the fact that the ancient Romans played hopscotch as a training exercise for soldiers and that English kids learned it from them when the Romans invaded, or that Alfred Mosher studied the front page of The New York Times to determine how many vowels and how many consonants should go into a Scrabble set. Since many of these games can be played indoors, the book will help teachers add a multicultural aspect to gym class, or to rainy-day recesses. 2002, John Wiley & Sons,


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