Try some of these fun and challenging activities at home
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Origami/Kirigami
Origami Club
This site has kid (and adult) friendly origami projects. You can make bugs, sea creatures, flowers, jewelry, and much more. The instructions are available in both a well written diagram format and computer animation.
Origami Resource Center
This site has hundreds of origami projects! Ideas include lanterns, flowers, holiday folding and toilet paper folding!
Kirigami For Kids
Kirigami is the art of paper folding and cutting. This site is a page from the Origami Resource Center. It contains a few simple, but fun and satisfying kirigami projects.
This site has kid (and adult) friendly origami projects. You can make bugs, sea creatures, flowers, jewelry, and much more. The instructions are available in both a well written diagram format and computer animation.
Origami Resource Center
This site has hundreds of origami projects! Ideas include lanterns, flowers, holiday folding and toilet paper folding!
Kirigami For Kids
Kirigami is the art of paper folding and cutting. This site is a page from the Origami Resource Center. It contains a few simple, but fun and satisfying kirigami projects.
Set Daily Puzzle
SET® is a highly addictive, original game of visual perception; a fascinating challenge for either solitaire or competitive play. To create a SET, a player must locate three cards in which each of the four features is either all the same on each card or all different on each card, when looked at individually. The four features are, symbol (oval, squiggle or diamond), color (red, purple or green), number (one, two or three) or shading (solid, striped or open). Age is no advantage in this fast paced family game.SET® is great fun for the whole family because there is no previous knowledge required.
Quiddler Daily Puzzle
Quiddler® is a beautiful word game with naturally smooth game play that plays fast. These are essentials for a successful game that few word games have. Using special cards, Quiddler® draws on one's ability to combine letters into words. Players must combine their entire hand into words trying to use the highest point value letters. Quiddler® challenges you to do this first with three cards (round one), then with four, on up to ten cards in the last round. A bonus is given for both, the longest word, and the most words made by a player in each round. The average game takes 20-40 minutes.
Text Twist
Word play is made awesome with this game. Check it out and try to rearrange the letters to make as many words as you can before time runs out!
Tangrams
Ancient Chinese moving piece puzzle, consisting of 7 pieces made using 3 basic geometric shapes. There are two large, one medium and two small triangles, one square and one parallelogram. Learn it’s history, easily make your own tangram set or try solving one of the puzzle shapes. We also have downloads of printouts and software for you to play with
Mystery Net's Kids' Mysteries
Mysteries to solve, scary stories, and magic tricks
Will Shortz’s Sunday Puzzle
Each week, New York Times crossword puzzle editor and NPR's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz presents an on-air quiz to one contestant and gives a challenge for Weekend Edition listeners at home.
Slitherlink Puzzle by Krazydad
Slitherlink is an addictive logic puzzle that was first published by Nikoli in Japan. The puzzle consists of a grid of dots, with some clue cells containing numbers. You connect horizontally or vertically adjacent dots to form a meandering path that forms a single loop or "Slitherlink." The loop must not have any branches and must not cross itself. The clue numbers indicate how many lines surround the cell. Empty cells may be surrounded by any number of lines (from 0 to 3).
Braingles - Codes, Ciphers, Encryption, and Cryptology
Cryptography is the discipline of using codes and ciphers to encrypt a message and make it unreadable unless the recipient knows the secret to decrypt it. Encryption has been used for many thousands of years. The following codes and ciphers can be learned and used to encrypt and decrypt messages by hand.