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286 Reading: The Sport of Champions!
Bulletin Board
Cross Words!
Purchase a wall-sized crossword puzzle and mount it on a bulletin board. Attach a couple of
pencils and leave a few crossword puzzle dictionaries on a table or shelf nearby. Giant puzzles
can be purchased from Great Big Stuff at www.greatbigstuff.com/crossword.html or
Hammacher Schlemmer at www.hammacher.com.
Incentives
Oriental Trading Company, www.orientaltrading.com, sells a variety of puzzles and challenging
games. Select an assortment to give as prizes to the teens that attend the programs.
Variation
Purchase several sports-themed jigsaw puzzles. Many inexpensive new puzzles are available at
dollar and thrift stores. Let the teams compete to finish the puzzles.
Refreshments
Prepare or purchase a sheet cake. Decorate with icing to resemble a crossword puzzle using
frosting or strips of black licorice lace to create lines. Fill in some of the spaces with a dark
colored icing and use tubes of icing to add letters. Alternatively, a commercial cake decorator
could add a crossword puzzle decoration to the cake.
Web Based Activities
USA Today Crosswords
http://puzzles.usatoday.com
Two weeks worth of puzzles are available for on-line solving. Users may a skill level, “Regular”
or “Master.” “Regular” players may click a “solve” button if they get stuck, and incorrect letters
appear in a different color.
The World’s First Crossword Puzzle
http://thinks.com/crosswords/first1.htm
See the world’s first crossword puzzle and learn about the history of puzzles. Think.com also
provides links to a variety of on-line puzzles.
Yahoo! Games
http://games.yahoo.com/games/cw.hf2k
New crossword puzzles are provided daily and older puzzles remain available for several weeks.
CD-ROMs
Crossword Construction Kit.