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The Sandbox: Fun activities
The Sandbox is a place where people of all ages can develop new learning skills, exercise their
imaginations, or simply play fun games. Lose yourself in the words of magnetic poetry, converse
with a robot, colour a mandala, complete original jigsaw puzzles, and much more.
Feel free to send us your results—magnificent magnetic poems or coloured mandalas—for
possible inclusion on the Fair's Fair site. Submit your creations to Yvonne Trainer at
with a subject heading of “Sandbox.”
Move online “felt” pieces to create scenes of dinosaurs, fish, snowmen, and rockets. Use your “Print Screen” button to capture a screen shot of the finished picture and send it to family members, friends, or us.
Use your computer mouse to colour trains, animals, teddy bears, and fruits. Who says ladybugs must be red? Use your imagination to create a blue bug, an orange banana, and a purple snail.
Print these intricate geometric patterns on your computer printer, then colour them any way you like. Use them to meditate, share them with friends, or wrap gifts in them.
This web site has over 50 online tools that help students in grades K-12 improve their reading, writing, and thinking skills. Learn about letters, words, idioms, and stories. Create poems, postcards, and comic strips. Build your vocabulary and draw graphs.
These tools are provided by ReadWriteThink.org—a Thinkfinity web site developed by the International Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English, in partnership with the Verizon Foundation.
Move “magnetic” words or phrases to form imaginative poetry, chosing from four different kits designed specifically for kids. Save your work on the web site or email it to three people. Read other kids’ poems (moderated).
Use these Shakespearean era “magnetic” words to create your own creative compositions. Go crazy and stretch thine imagination. Doth lines tormet thee? Forswear bonds and scatter words hither and yon.
Much like magnetic poetry, you select words from an available list to form your poetic masterpiece. Save the result to share with others. This web page is part of “The Poet Sanctuary” site, which also includes forums and contests.
Carry on a conversation with a computer program. You’ll either love it or hate it. Personally, we’ve spent way too many hours at the keyboard talking with “Oliver.”
Play the game of Tetris, where you must arrange falling geometric shapes to fit with one another. After a few games, you’ll have to provide an email address, but the site’s Privacy Policy probably will meet your approval.
Solve multiple jigsaw puzzles online. You decide how difficult each puzzle will be—between 6 and 247 pieces. Upon success, you’ll be rewarded with an image of an original wildlife painting.
