365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities: A Year's Worth of Ideas for TV-Free, Video-Free, and Computer Game-Free Entertainment

by Steven J. Bennett and Ruth Bennett

Recent studies show that too much time spent in front of the television can lead to attention deficit disorder in children. But most parents don't need science to tell them that there are better ways to entertain kids than to prop them in front of "electronic babysitters." Full of amazingly simple, easy-to-implement suggestions, The Ultimate Book of Unplugged Family Activities provides a year's worth of inspiring alternatives.Here are ideas for entertaining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738210005
• ISBN13: 9780738210001
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Full of great ideas to chase boredom away!

With Summer coming and the kids being out of school, cries of "There is nothing to do!" will soon be heard across the land. "365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities" by Steve and Ruth Bennett comes to the rescue! This book promises a year's worth of ideas for TV-free, video-free, and computer game-free entertainment and it delivers. With this book as a guide, your kids can go on adventure treks through your house, play edible tic-tac-toe, practice cup-stacking, create a newspaper about things going on at home or in your neighborhood, paint coffee filters, or create a video cooking show, and so much more. Many of the ideas are educational and all are fun. I'm sure to use many of the ideas with my children this summer.