Candy Land Sweet Celebrations Game 3-D

My 6 year old son still plays his traditional Candy Land game. Thinking he might like to try something new, I brought him home the new 3-D Candy Land Game for ages 4 plus.
The setup took some time, I thought I had to set it up exactly as the example on the instructions. But then I realized you can build the track any way it works best for you to play. We used all the game board track pieces and it took up our whole dining room table which seats 6. We did a lot of standing up to and going around the table move the game pieces because you had to keep going back to the spinner which was fixed at the start area to spin. A hint for the spinner: tape down the cardboard colors so it doesn’t keep moving off the base. The game has the same concept as the original board game, but it’s played differently. Instead of landing on “candy” spaces that bring you to a candy land, you make stops at four different stations to pick up your candy before you can head over to the “party” which is how you win, when you land ond the 3-D Candy Land party space. My son said he liked it because he won..fair and square. I hardly ever let him win. Then rearranged the board game using less tracks and I enjoyed the game more because I was able to sit in one spot and play, but my sons arms were not as long as mine so he still had to keep getting out of his seat to play. It might work better on a floor, but still you’ll need to move around to move your piece. Funny how he can enjoy this new Candy Land game and then play the more sophisticated game of Chess. He hasn’t bet me yet in that.

Chore List

After the first week of summer vacation for my rising first grader I knew I had to do something to keep order in our house. So I came up with a chore list that is posted on our fridge. Each time one of the tasks are done I put a 1 in the space beside it, and some even get a bundle, 1111 and then a / over it to make five. At the end of the week we count up the amount of 1's he has gotten and he gets and penny for each one as his allowance for doing his chores. The first week he got .35 and each week it increased as he doing more things on the list. Now he is up to $1.20 this past week. I used Microsoft Excel to make the chart and print a new one out each week.