Childhood Toys
This best-selling toy from the 1950s began life as a wallpaper cleaner until a teacher decided to have her students use it as clay for sculpting.
What is Play-Doh?
Advice vs. advice: the noun.
What is Advice? (to advise, the verb, is to give advice)
On March 10th, Canada and United States switch to this time.
What is Daylight Saving Time?
Another name for heat waves, or summer weather that can happen later into the fall season.
What is an Indian Summer?
This sport is commonly watched on Sundays (during the Fall).
What is football?
These paint kits are still popular with young and mature alike.
What are paint-by-number kits?
Accept vs. Except: the verb that means to receive.
What is Accept? (Except means to exclude or leave out)
The poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth describes these flowers that bloom in March.
What are Daffodils?
These trees stay the same color during Fall.
What is the Evergreen Tree?
This sport begins its playoffs at the beginning of Fall.
What is baseball?
When you were growing up, boys played with this military figure.
What is G.I. Joe?
Principal vs. Principle: The head of a school.
What is Principal?
In the United States, this Japanese national flower begins to bloom in March.
What is the Cherry Blossom?
Birds begin to do this during the Fall.
What is migrate South?
This activity involves riding through a field, and may sometimes be "haunted".
What is a hayride?
These pictures come in hundreds of irregular pieces and occupy a good portion of the dining room table.
What are (jigsaw) puzzles?
Censor vs. censure: a reprimand or criticism.
What is Censure? (Censor means to remove harmful material)
Meteorological spring starts on this day.
What is March 1st?
What is March?
This activity involves finding your way through a field.
What is a corn maze?
This popular children's game involves balls and metal pieces.
What are Jacks?
Inequality or Iniquity: Wickedness or sin.
What is iniquity?
On the first day of spring, the first glimpse of the sun since the polar night happens here.
What is the Arctic Circle?
This drink is common to drink both warm and cold during the Fall.
What is Apple Cider?
This is the name for pumpkins that get carved.
What is a Jack-O-Lantern?