Each TOY or GAME has a STORY to share with kids. Today, it’s the Game of CHINESE CHECKERS’ turn to tell its story (with a little help from Grandma Sharon)… WHAT is the Game of CHINESE CHECKERS:  Chinese Checkers is a board game arranged to form a 6-pointed star/hexagram and has 121 indentations for marbles’ play.  Pieces consist of 6 [...]

Each TOY or GAME has a STORY to share with kids. Today, it’s NESTING DOLLS’ turn to tell its story (with a little help from Grandma Sharon)… WHAT are NESTING DOLLS: Traditionally, Nesting Dolls are brightly painted wooden figurines made in a such way that they can be taken apart to reveal smaller dolls fitting inside one another. Arguably, the [...]

Each TOY or GAME has a STORY to share with kids. Today, it’s NERF’s turn to tell its story (with a little help from Grandma Sharon)… WHAT is NERF: There are multiple sources that tell us that NERF is an acronym for NON-EXPANDING RECREATIONAL FOAM. One other explanation is that the word NERF was chosen by Parker Brothers, NERF’s developer, [...]

Each TOY or GAME has a STORY to share with kids. Today, it’s the Game of UNO’s turn to tell its story (with a little help from Grandma Sharon)… WHAT is the Game of UNO:  UNO is a 4-color card game in which players must match the color or number of the card before him.  Specific ACTION cards make the [...]

Each TOY or GAME has a STORY to share with kids. Today, it’s the Magic 8 Ball’s turn to tell its story (with a little help from Grandma Sharon)… WHAT is the MAGIC 8 BALL:  The Magic 8 Ball looks like a large “8 ball” from a pocket billiards game.  Inside the Magic 8 Ball are mysterious messages that are [...]

Each TOY or GAME has a STORY to share with kids. Today, it’s PLAY-DOH’s turn to tell its story (with a little help from Grandma Sharon)… WHAT is PLAY-DOH:  Play-Doh is a non-toxic, re-usable modeling compound used by children of all ages.  Play-Doh is one toy that Grandma Sharon remembers vividly from childhood.  I remember the 3-pack of yellow, red [...]

Each TOY or GAME has a STORY to share with kids. Today, it’s SIMON’S turn to tell its story (with a little help from Grandma Sharon)… WHAT is SIMON:  Official definition:  SIMON is an electronic, table-top memory game consisting of four large buttons of different color lights and sound tones in a sequence that the player must match. Grandma Sharon’s [...]

Each TOY or GAME has a STORY to share with kids. Today, it’s the Game of BINGO’s turn to tell its story (with a little help from Grandma Sharon)… WHAT is Bingo:  Bingo is a game in which players mark off numbers on cards as the numbers are drawn randomly by a “caller” or cage.  The winner is the first [...]

Each TOY or GAME has a STORY to share with kids. Today, it’s BUBBLES’ turn to tell its story (with a little help from Grandma Sharon)… WHAT are Bubbles:  Bubbles are spherical, filmy structures made of soap, blown from a ribbed wand-on-a- stick and carried with the wind. But that’s a kind of technical definition for what Bubbles really are… [...]

Each TOY or GAME has a STORY to share with kids. Today, it’s the Game of TIC-TAC-TOE-s turn to tell its story (with a little help from Grandma Sharon)… WHAT is the Game of Tic-Tac-Toe:  Tic-Tac-Toe is a game of strategy played by 2 players identified as marks X and O.  The “game board” is a 3 x 3 row [...]