This is a bit more random and fun post
(1)  You can create a fun game with a plastic egg (think "Easter") and a flight of stairs.  Voila!  "Egg Steps" is born. . .er. ..hatched. (name courtesty of the honorary "little sister" I regularly kid-sit for.)  This is especially fun if the stairs don't have carpet on them, and if they are L-shaped (No, not each step. . .I don't know how to say this, being unskilled in stair lingo--you go down a few steps and come to a square of floor, then turn and go down more steps. . .what do you call that??). 

Just roll the egg from the top of the stairs and see how far it can make it. . .designate each step with a value (e.g., four steps might equal "four yards" or just the score of "4") and write down your score.  (To turn this into a math exercise with siblings or "babysit-ees" add up the different scores, to see who won, and also divide to find each person's average!)  I proved this game will keep myself and a nine-year-old entertained for over an hour.  And the excercise is great!  You're running up and down the stairs every minute! Ought to burn lots of calories! Yes. . .I'm tired.

A variation of this game could be played with a slinky.  I wonder if I still have mine. . .Hmmm. . .

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(2) I don't celebrate commercial Christmas (sorry, Rudolph, Blitzen, Vixen, Nixon, and friends. . .wait. . .I think the last was a President, not a reindeer!), but I thought of this fun list:

Santa Clause:  For all the lawyers out there.
Santa Claws:  He's my cats' favorite.
Santa Paws:  Let's hear it for Doggie Man!
Santa Pause:  What we all need to do in this busy holiday season.
Santa Haws:  This is the donkey version.
Santa Gnaws:  All through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for one little mouse.
Santa Thaws:  If his home base is at the North Pole, and he travels all over the world, don't you think it's logical?
Santa Saws:  Hey, aren't there still some kids who request wooden sleds?  Or did that go out of vogue 100 years ago?
Santa Laws:  The Elf Constitution.

Got one of your own?  Comment and tell me!