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Children are learning to open up to word possibilities by visualizing or
physically trying out various combinations until they find the right one or
ones.
This is an especially useful way to help children maintain their atten-
tion when studying for a spelling test. If they can recognize the word back-
wards and jumbled, they can easily spell it forwards!
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Attention Games
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A
Accentuate the Positive (teen
game), 145
Achy Breaky Heart (teen game),
146–147
ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), 2,
173
Adolescents. 
See Teens
All the Things You Can Think Of (6-
to 12-year-olds), 111–112
Annoyed with the Flower Bud (teen
game), 147–149
Another Viewpoint (3- to 6-year
olds), 74–75
Armstrong, T., 2
Art de Deux (3- to 6-year-olds),
76–77
Art games: Art de Deux (3- to 
6-year-olds), 76–77; Flip-Flop
Stamps (teens), 172; Junk Box Art
(6- to 12-year-olds), 120–121;
My Special Things (teen game),
152–153; Paint the World,
99–100; Paper Plethora (6- to
12-year-olds), 132–133; Potato
Puppets (6- to 12-year-olds),
133–135; Self-Portraits (teens),
166–167; Sensory Matching (6-
to 12-year-olds), 135–137; Shelf
Paper Story (6- to 12-year-
olds), 126–127; Tile Painting (6-
to 12-year-olds), 137–138;
Toothpick Art (6- to 12-year-
olds), 141–142
Attention: challenge of capturing
children’s, 1–4; focused type of,
1; open and global form of, 1;
shifting from open to focused, 2;
See also specific focused and
open attention games by age
Author contact information, 5
B
Back Writing (6- to 12-year-olds),
112–113
Backwards Time Management (6-
to 12-year-olds), 138–140
Ball playing (toddler game), 60–61
Bat the Ball (infant game), 31–32
Batting Practice (3- to 6-year
olds), 77–78
Being a Radio (toddler game),
59–60
Bracelet of Leaves (toddler game),
47