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