- 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;