| As children are growing up they are developing | | | | Obstacle Courses For The Brain |
| thinking, as well as behavioral, patterns. Using these 6 | | | | We all have heard of obstacle courses that require |
| brain exercises for children is one way to help them | | | | physical exercises, but we can also set up ones that |
| develop these skills for better functioning and mental | | | | include brain exercises for children. An obstacle course |
| abilities for life. | | | | for the brain can combine both physical and brain |
| Word Searches/Crosswords | | | | exercises, or focus exclusively on the latter. You can |
| They make many books for kids that contain word | | | | make stations along a physical obstacle course where |
| searches and crosswords. These are great activities | | | | they can only proceed to the next station after they |
| for children to exercise their brains by using the focus | | | | complete a mental task, such as a short crossword |
| and thinking that they require. Crossword puzzles are | | | | puzzle or word problem. You can also set is up where |
| also a great family activity, where one person can | | | | they have stations throughout the house where they |
| read off the clue and tell how many letters are | | | | have to complete a series of mental tasks all lined up |
| involved and everyone else can guess. | | | | along the floor or a table. |
| Memory Exercises | | | | Write Or Draw Left-Handed (Or Right-Handed) |
| Working with memory exercises can be one of the | | | | A great way to exercise the brain is to use the |
| easiest brain exercises for children, since it can be | | | | non-dominant hand for writing or drawing. This can be |
| done in the car while driving or almost anywhere else. | | | | fun to see who can tell what was written or drawn |
| Starting when they are young we naturally do these | | | | afterwards. Another option is to draw a picture where |
| exercises by teaching them how to spell their names, | | | | one-half is done with the dominant hand and then |
| and what their phone numbers and addresses are. | | | | afterwards it is copied onto the other half by the |
| We can expand on this by having them work on | | | | non-dominant hand. These are brain exercises for |
| remembering poems, songs, and the names from | | | | children that encourage both sides of their brain to |
| family trees. | | | | work together. |
| Memorizing helps children use their brain to focus and | | | | While brain exercises for children can be simple and |
| retain the information. It also is a very useful skill since | | | | fun the payoffs can be huge. By using these brain |
| a lot of education is based on memorizing, such as | | | | exercises the children are learning to exercise an |
| learning the number facts for math or learning a list of | | | | important part of the body. |
| spelling words. | | | | |