While being engaged in fun activities, your children will be practicing important age-appropriate skills such as visual discrimination, sequencing, small muscle coordination, following directions, reading comprehension, and critical and creative thinking. The activities in The Never-Bored Kid Book, Ages 8 and 9 are organized around 20 age-appropriate themes: - marsupials - hearts - frogs - primates - whales - knights - dogs - Japan - princess - designs - Little Red Riding Hood - helicopters - foxes - rabbits - robots - barn fun - chickens - lions - little books - ducks - sports