It's party season for J at the moment and one of the things that we keep getting in the party bags are mini sugar coated chocolates (smarties, asda own and M&M's) - now I don't mind a few occasionally but with 3 parties in 1 week there was a lot of chocolate flowing around so I decided to use them for some fun as well as a little education.
What you need
Some sugar coated chocolates
A paper plate
Contains of various colours we used our ELC Stacking cups
How the fun happens
I emptied the packet of sweets onto the paper plate and then we enjoyed all the brown ones (the stacking cups didn't come in brown).
Then I gave J the various cups and we said the colours. I then said find all the red and put in the red pot - he looked through - we had puzzled looks over pink, red and orange which all looked fairly similar especially when hot little hands had got in on the action.
He sorted them into cups and then I said he could eat them - but no he didn't want to - he emptied them all back on to the plate and started again eating a couple of them each time. The activity lasted until the last one was eaten he got into the game and would say YEAH every time he put a new one in a cup that was the right colour.
Fun Factor
Cerys Parker
Cerys is a marine biologist, environmental educator, high school teacher and mum. Realising that life doesn't have to be put on hold and you don't just have to survive whilst the kids are young she shares ideas to inspire you to LIVE with the kids, with activities to do together, recipes to cook and enjoy and family travel to make memories to last a lifetime.
The last slayer says
I love this idea. Will be keeping an eye on your blog for more ideas about what I can do with my 2 until my maternity leave ends 😀
Rebecca says
What a sweet idea (sorry couldn't resist bad joke!) A great way to use sweets for something more than just eating. I'll remember this for when the twins are a bit older. I've stumbled it too.
I always liked to use smarties in maths lessons, great for prediction, and ratio skills.
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Cerys @ Rainy Day Mum says
Thanks for stumbling 😀 - I used to use them in lesson as well found that they really worked - annoying thing is that the little boxes of smarties are now tiny smarties but that does mean more per box for games like this.