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The family book : amazing things to do together

Author: David Woodroffe; Scholastic, Inc. (Firm); Complete Editions (Firm)
Publisher: New York : Scholastic, Inc., ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Provides over a hundred things to do with your family, including games, tricks to perform, puzzles, activities, and lifesaving advice.
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Genre/Form: Juvenile literature
Material Type: Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Woodroffe; Scholastic, Inc. (Firm); Complete Editions (Firm)
ISBN: 9780545057578 0545057574
OCLC Number: 234796755
Description: ix, 182 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Prepare a memorable breakfast in bed --
Convince your neighbors you have won the lottery --
How to go sledding if you don't have a sled --
Climb through a sheet of paper --
Make a photographic family tree --
Calculate the hidden sides of two dice --
Prove you're a mathematical genius --
Play Kim's game --
Balloon stomp --
Spelling bee --
Trying triangles --
Saving the planet --
How to tell if Dad has been replaced by an alien --
Dicey mind reading --
How to get rescued in a desert --
Play the talented cat game --
Boggle your brain with "Abracadabra" --
Test your family's taste buds --
Express yourself with hand gestures --
Dumbfound the family with doodles --
Turn waste into compost --
Calculate when people were born --
Snow angels --
Vacation scavengers --
Cut a loop of paper in half and still have only one piece of paper --
Solve Roman numeral puzzles --
Spy catcher --
Build a nest box --
What not to do at family gatherings --
How to wash a dog in space --
Create spectacular sums --
Short-sheet a bed --
Make money from things you no longer need --
Ways to avoid being struck by lightning --
What to do in a minefield --
Have a shadow-puppet competition --
How to live forever --
Boxing clever --
Doodling in the dark --
Heartbreak hotel --
Where does the time go? --
Build an emergency shelter in the forest --
Have a matchbox race --
How to stick pins in balloons without popping them --
Write invisible messages --
Bumper stickers not to put on the family car --
How to make toys from junk --
Family facial olympics --
Drawing the impossible --
Quarter a circle with three equal lines --
How to convince people you are a family of vampires --
How to be the first to reach 100 --
Survive a volcanic eruption --
How to find underground water by dowsing --
How to find any word in any book --
Puzzle the family with riddles --
Slice a banana without peeling it --
How to spend $1 million in 24 hours --
How to decide who in the family to eat first --
Lighting a campfire without matches --
How to sing a round together --
How to make money magically appear --
Be a butler for a day --
Square cuts --
The three-cup trick --
Magic squares --
How to have fun in the sun --
How to make and use tangrams --
Make a family photo collage --
How to be a royal family --
Make a bottle garden --
Escape from a charging elephant --
Connect these nine dots with four lines --
How to play horseshoe --
How to be the best recycler in the family --
How to hold someone down on a chair with just your little finger --
Win "Pick up the last penny" every time --
Stop runaway horses --
Prepare a spooky Halloween supper --
Make and use family code machines --
Make Mom an Egyptian mummy --
Play stepping-stones --
Play charades --
How to make this uneven carpet square with just three cuts --
Multiply in double-quick time --
Find which direction is south when you're lost --
How to convince Mom she is invisible --
Silence bores and show-offs --
Grow the largest sunflower in the family --
How to survive going over a waterfall --
Potato puzzler --
Turn this octagon into a star and still keep an octagon --
Convince your family that you are a mind reader --
Send messages with semaphore --
How to find water in the desert --
Vanquish vampires --
Kite kit --
Going crackers --
Create a family scrapbook --
How to find north by reading the stars --
How to play Achi on the beach --
Tie a knot without letting go of either end --
Do-it-yourself printing press --
Escape from a car perched on the edge of a cliff --
Create a family percussion section --
Bob for apples --
How to be the ghoulest family in the neighborhood --
The holly and the ivy and everything else in a green Christmas --
Make a family rogues' gallery --
Answers to the puzzles.
Responsibility: [text supplied by Complete Editions ; illustrated by David Woodroffe]

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Provides over a hundred things to do with your family, including games, tricks to perform, puzzles, activities, and lifesaving advice.

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