Besides being fun, games encourage creative thinking
.Some traditional favorites:
- Monopoly
- Scrabble
- Pictionary
- Balderdash
While eating dinner, make up your own family games. For example, play the "what if" game. What if you crossed a hippopotamous with an alligator? What would you have? Why a "hippogator" of course!
On family trips, create stories together, each person adding several lines.
Special programs in Maryland
Parent support groups
Gifted and Talented links on the Internet
Enrichment begins at home