Make a Family Joke Book!
Collect your family's favorite child-appropriate jokes in a book. It's a great way for grandparents, parents, and children to exchange jokes, riddles, and puns. You can even include amusing anecdotes and cartoons.
Here are some tips for creating your family joke book:
- Ask each family member to contribute jokes or riddles.
- Encourage family members to create cartoons for the book.
- Add some funny true stories.
The joke book is a great keepsake and reference. It's a way to hand down stories and jokes from one generation to the next.
If you're interested in learning more about how to develop and understand kids' humor, check out On Parenting It's a funny thing....
Highlights ® has been supplying kids and their parents with jokes and humorous stories for over 60 years.
In the April 2008 issue of Highlights, you'll find "Oops, I Goofed!" in which kids shared silly moments from their lives. Every issue of Highlights includes jokes sent by readers and a humorous drawing on the back cover that invites kids to figure out "What's Wrong?"
In the April 2008 issue of Highlights High Five ™, you'll find a story called "Knock! Knock!" It's a humorous poem that's just right for preschoolers. Each month in High Five, you'll also find a feature called "That's Silly!" Kids are asked to describe what's silly in an otherwise normal scene. It's a great way to help young children discover that incongruity can be funny.
Finally, be sure to check out HighlightsKids.com ®, the award-winning, advertising-free site where you'll find lots of jokes and riddles to share with your kids.