Creative Family Projects, Games and Activities: Exciting and Practical Activities You Can Do Together [Paperback]

Cynthia MacGregor (Author)

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From Booklist

Most family-activity books focus on entertaining the younger set (preschool and early graders), but this collection will supply summertime and year-round diversions for all ages, even intergenerational fun. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles can join in with parents, teens, and children to create and play a family trivia game or some of the imagination stretchers suggested here. Often the authors recommend that an activity, such as a family meeting or disaster-avoidance rehearsals, become a regular event. Here is a medley of exciting and enlightening ideas that will challenge the TV for a family's attention. Denise Perry Donavin

Product Details

• Paperback: 225 pages
• Publisher: Citadel Pr; 1st trade paper printing edition (May 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806516364
• ISBN-13: 978-0806516363
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,056,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born in the suburbs of New York, I moved to the city itself as soon as I was old enough to go out on my own, eventually transplanting myself to South Florida. A part of me had always felt I belonged where the warm tropical breezes shake the palm fronds into beckoning motions. They beckoned, and in 1984 I answered, leaving my beloved NY behind. I've since put down roots a mile long.

I have been writing for as long as I can remember - from back when I first learned to spell t-h-e c-a-t. By age 9, I had written a play (admittedly short and childish, but a play nonetheless), which was put on at summer camp, and there were stories and poems too, some of which were printed in such places as the newsletter of the arts program I took part in, and the local weekly paper in the community where I grew up.

My earliest serious aspiration was to be an actress, and I'm still a ham who loves the limelight, but I traded in my theatrical dreams for the writing life decades ago and have no regrets whatsoever.

I am definitely a glass-half-full person, and there is no one in the world I'd want to trade lives with. My life hasn't always been easy - I'm a cancer survivor and have had additional health issues too, as well as other adversities - but it's been a marvelous ride so far, and I hope it just keeps going and going and going. I jump out of bed each morning (normally at 5 AM), eager to start a new day.

My past includes stints as a theatre reviewer and specialty-newspaper publisher, a lot of freelance editing, and a bit of agenting. My first book wasn't published till 1993, but I've made up for the late start and have had over 50 conventional books and another over-50 ebooks published in the time since then, and I'm still going strong. I have NO plan to EVER retire. I absolutely LOVE what I do. Why would I ever want to stop?

My wish for each of you who reads this is that you find your life as fun and as fulfilling as I do.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not creative enough, September 17, 2007

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This review is from: Creative Family Projects, Games and Activities: Exciting and Practical Activities You Can Do Together (Paperback)

The author's idea of creative activities included a great many ideas for competitive endeavors wherein extrinsic rewards were handed out, e.g. a star chart to get kids to read. I do not find such activities to be creative.