101 Activities for Kids in Tight Spaces: At the Doctor's Office, on Car, Train, and Plane Trips, Home Sick in Bed . . .

By Carol Stock Kranowitz

You can never have enough space. And if you can't, just think of your kids--all the time they have to spend in tight spaces--like cars, planes, trains, the doctor's office, the grocery store, being sick or housebound, waiting in line. Kids need room to move around, but there are many times when they just plain can't have it. While raising two exuberant boys, teaching preschool, leading Cub Scouts, and running a birthday party business, Carol Kranowitz came up with savvy, creative ways to keep kids content in tight spaces. Her activity ideas combine old standbys with new ones born of desperation and cramped quarters. They follow a philosophy that helps kids develop their different skills and abilities while entertaining themselves and interacting. You'll find great projects for every imaginable small space parents and children encounter: Fun Food for Tiny Kitchens : Ants on a Log, Footprints in the Snow, and Aiken Drum Faces In the Urban Community : Windowsill Garden, Bug Jar, and Corn-on-the-Sponge When the Walls Seem to Be Closing In : Pillow Crashing, People Sandwich, and Teeter-Totter When what you've got is a small space and a restless child, what you need are 101 ingenious solutions--right away. Here they are--easy to implement, creative fun for the three to seven-year-old--activities that can turn tough moments into teachable, terrific ones.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B001O9CHCU
• ISBN13: 9780312134204
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Love It!

This book has helped me so much to find fun, and educational activities for my son, also ones that could be used for anyone on a budget. I would suggest this book to anyone!

101 Activities for Kids in Tight Spaces

This book is packed with great info for parents with kids that have sensory intergration dysfunction syndrome.

Great book!

It has lots of old ideas I'd forgotten from my own childhood and it has lots of new ideas. The writer understands the needs of children. They can behave a lot better if they have interesting little things to do like the ideas that are in this book.

One basic problem with this book--

I have a basic problem with this book: it's too small! Although 101 activities sound like a lot, when you break them down into situations in which they are workable (at home, waiting in the doctor's office, in the car/train/airplane, sick in bed, etc.) a person might like more ideas. The activities presented in the book are simple. They are fun. And all of them I have tried work (many are old stand-bys that this grandma used with her own children-but many were new to me). I plan to use them soon on a long trip with my grandchildren. When could you use them next?!