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Wean Your Children from TV or Videogames with Quizzes for Kids

By: Norman Kirby

If you're worried that your children are viewing too much TV and playing too many videogames, why not introduce them to quizzes for kids? Although your kids may be unwilling at first - after all, why should they do in their free time what they already do a lot of in school - they'll relent when they realize how enjoyable quizzes can be. Taking quizzes is also an activity that parents and kids can do together. And, of course, quizzes can be a helpful way of teaching children new things.
One of the most handy places to find quizzes for kids is at free quiz sites where there are children's quizzes on a variety of subjects, ranging from the trivial to the informative . For example, you can find quizzes on astrology and geology, as well as on Harry Potter and the Disney princesses. You can download copies of these quizzes for your children to solve or they can do it interactively on the site, so that they can find out at once how much they scored and what the correct answers are without having to look them up.
Here are some suggestions on how to pick quizzes for kids from online quiz sites:
Choose a mixture of educational and fun trivia quizzes in order to keep your children both informed and entertained.
The quiz should not be so short that it can be completed too quickly or so long that it begins to feel like a school test. The ideal number of questions would be around twenty to twenty-five, depending on the attention span of your child.
If you are picking an online interactive quiz, try to choose one that allows the choice to either reveal the answers at once or have the child retake the quiz if they are not satisfied with their results.
If you are feeling creative, you can design your own quizzes for kids. The good thing about creating your own quizzes is that you can relate them to whatever lessons your children are currently studying. There are several types of quizzes you can make, from the regular multiple choice quiz to a quiz where you have to select the correct answers from a provided list. You can add an added element of fun to the quiz by having the correct answers spell out a phrase related to the subject of the quiz or including other types of "Easter eggs" as part of the finished quiz.
Here are some tips on how to create quizzes for kids.
The topic for the quizzes you want to make should based on your child's interests and what their current lessons are.
Decide on the kind of quiz you want to make. Do you want to make a typical multiple-choice quiz or something more unique such as a matching quiz where questions in one column are matched with the answers in a second column?
To make it more enjoyable for your child to complete, include a concealed phrase or statement that will slowly be revealed as the quiz is completed.

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