McKenna's Marvelous Museum (Quarantined) Adventures
Hello everyone! My name is McKenna Crews and this summer I will be an intern with Karen Malone, the Ruby C. Strickland Curator of Education at the Evansville Museum of Art, History & Science. I am going to be a senior this year and am a triple history major studying Public History, General History, and Social Studies Education. I hope to get my masters degree in Public History and then teach for a few years in an urban school district. After that, I hope to become an educational curator or director in a museum. I will be making videos and activities for the next few weeks to help replace some of the traditional summer camps that the museum usually puts on. I hope you enjoy!!
This week's episode consists of me giving kids riddles to figure out. These riddles require using active listening skills and critical thinking to figure out the answer to the riddle. I will give the answers in this blog post so parents, guardians, camp counselors or babysitters can help kids figure out if they are right until they find out the answers in the first part of the video.
Let’s put on our thinking caps to learn these riddles!
You will Need:
An item to pass around during the Build a Boat riddle
That is it!!
Sticks:
1. “If this is a stick and this is a stick, is this a stick?”
2. If I say “listen” before the phrase, then it is a stick. If I do not say listen, then the answer is no.
3. This helps kids to pick up on key words and make sure they are listening to every detail.
Magical Umbrella:
1. This riddle finds things that you can bring under my magical umbrella. The key is, you must say “ummm… ______” before you say your object.
2. This also helps kids to pick up on key… sounds!
Green Glass Door:
1. This riddle makes kids have to think about how things are spelled.
2. You can only bring things with double letters through the Green Glass Doors, just like the title of the riddle!
Johnny Whoop:
1. This riddle requires kids to mimic who they are doing the riddle with and use motor skills.
2. They must watch all the way through the riddle and use patience to see the answer. The riddle is correct when kids learn to put their hands together and down on the lap as soon as they are done with the Johnny Whoops.
Man in the Moon:
1. Kids will draw a picture of the moon with their finger in the air.
2. The key here is that they have to be observant enough to realize that I am drawing it with my left hand, and they have to too!
Build a Boat:
1. Kids are given an object and asked what they would like to build a boat out of.
2. Their boat can only float if they say “thank you” after being given the object. (This one works best with multiple people)
3. Teaches kids manners and to say thank you even in rushed or exciting situations.
Build a Boat:
1. “There are 7 bears in my shoe, 28 in my purse and 79 bears in your hair! How many bears are there?”
2. The answer is however many words are in the question so that is 5. You change it each time.
3. This riddle engages kids to realize they must count and pick up on the key phrase of the riddle.
Conclusion:
Riddles are mind games that make us think more deeply about what people are saying. This teaches us to use active listening skills which can help us learn in school, fully comprehend what was asked of us, or just to be a good friend and listen to problems. I hope you and your kids enjoy this weeks video and it makes you want to look up or learn even more riddles!