Cars Printable Activity Pages - A Key to Some Creative Silence
However this may prove to be a challenge sometimes when parents run out of ideas.
So be a step ahead and stay on the lookout for a variety of activities that are both entertaining and informative.
One great idea is the activity sheets based on the Disney characters and story behind Disney-Pixar's full length animated film Cars.
Easily downloadable from the web, these sheets can be printed in as many copies to be repeatedly enjoyed by any school-aged Lightning McQueen fanatic.
For instance, Route 66 may be acknowledged by old timers as the Main Street of America, but for the young crowd it is now more known as the reason why the rookie missed his preparations for the tie-breaker race in California.
So whether as an educational game to pass the time away or as a supplementary school exercise, there are ten very useful printable activity sheets on this topic alone.
The Route 66 Word Search challenges the player to finding 18 words embedded in the maze of letters.
The Route 66 Vocabulary and Crossword sheets each contain 10 questions that will surely stretch one's thinking muscles.
Equally interesting are the Draw and Write Page, the Challenge, the Alphabet Activity, the Tic-Tac-Toe, the Map Activity, and Theme Paper, all from the same Route 66 Printable series.
Lastly, its Bookmarks and Pencil Toppers is a fitting hand-and-eye coordination project for a preschooler.
Meanwhile to tickle the right side of the brain, there are numerous line drawings of each of the popular Cars characters that are available from various internet sites.
A printer and scanner if available can translate these into hours and hours of creative silence.
Copies can be duplicated in as many times as the child wishes to enjoy the pursuit, perhaps using and changing colors on the same picture as he pleases.
These same pages can later on, with some help from mom or dad, be cut out and turned into an improvised jigsaw puzzle.
And while on the subject, the same cut outs can be used as wall decors for the child's room, or as colorful covers for their notebooks and folders.
Unquestionably, these activity sheets are not only mentally stimulating for the young as these encourage critical and creative thinking, but are also quite liberating for the adult companions.
With the little geniuses occupied, like during long road trips for example, mom and dad are also afforded some quiet time for themselves.
In other words, sometimes a little out-of-the-box thinking is the key for parents to be a step ahead in as far as always having a bag-full of tricks handy.