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The family book : amazing things to do together / [text supplied by Complete Editions ; illustrated by David Woodroffe].

New York : Scholastic, Inc., ©2007.

ix, 182 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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

Family recreation -- Juvenile literature.

Woodroffe, David, illustrator.

Scholastic, Inc. (Firm)

Complete Editions (Firm)

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-- Play Kim's game -- Balloon stomp -- Spelling bee -- Trying triangles -- Saving the planet -- How to tell if Dad has been replaced by an alien -- Dicey mind reading -- How to get rescued in a desert -- Play the talented cat game -- Boggle your brain with "Abracadabra" -- Test your family's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.

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