Do we need a lot of money to make fun for kids? No! Sometimes a box of matches is enough;)
I like creative ideas when we don't need special devices or skills or lots of money to play with our kids or to make some educational tasks for them.
Moreover, when we ourselvers use simple things to use them in unusual ways, we teach our kids be creative as well.
They make their outlook wider and see that creativity has no borders.
Matches games have been popular among parents for many years, since times when kids had not so many toys at all, and all they could find at home or in ther street were their toys.
My Dad told me that in his childhood even balls were a miracle, so simple wooden sticks in the street were common toys in their village. And it was cool! Much better that 1000s of expensive toys and PC and tablet games that our kids have now.
So I try to show my son that games can be cool even without modern super toys.
I've found some tasks with matches in the web space, and proposed my son to some of them.
I was surrpised we spent there about 1 hour, and it was fun for both of us!
We tried to make letters, pictures, human figures, animals and even solve logical tasks!
Here are some of them:
How to make a window of a house moving only 2 matches
that's it
How to make this task right moving only 1 match
here is the answer
my favourite one (forgot to make a photo)
How to make 6 squares moving only 2 matches
that's it
make 7 squares moving 2 matches
reply:
Cool, yeah?
You can find lots of tasks if you want, and your kid will have something new and interesting;)