Magdalena Ball
Biography
Magdalena Ball runs the Preschool Entertainment at http://www.preschoolentertainment.com/html and The Compulsive Reader at http://www.compulsivereader.com/html, and is the author of two books, The Literary Lunch: Recipes for a Hungry Mind, and The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything. Her fiction, poetry, reviews, interviews, and essays have appeared in a wide range of on-line and print publications.
Publications
10 (Nearly) Free Toys or Activities for Preschoolers
Sibling Collaboration: How Children Learn from their Siblings
Teaching preschoolers through Cooking
Top Tips for Car Travel with Teenyboppers
Articles
Sibling Collaboration
Even as I type this, my older son is "teaching" my younger son how to draw a lower case "e". As my younger son is only 2, and my older son is just turning 5, they are effectively both teaching each... [more]
Top Tips for Car Travel with Teenyboppers
When my youngest son was only 2 months we took a 12 hour trip in the car for a family millennium celebration. Since my eldest son was right in the middle of toilet training himself, and the baby was... [more]
10 (Nearly) Free Toys or Activities for Preschoolers
It is inevitable. You spend a small fortune kitting your child out with the very best toys and all he or she wants to play with is the pots and pans, sticky tape, an old crushed cardboard box and... [more]
Teaching Preschoolers Through Cooking
Call it a snack, and feed it to them between meals, and my preschoolers will eat almost anything. Raw vegetables, pieces of dry bread, leftovers, you name it. Of course the same food, nicely prepared... [more]
