“C” Is for Candy…

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Candy.

There is candy spilling over from the large Tupperware bowl in the cabinet.

Pieces fall out when I open the door to get items out for lunch.  I toss them back in quickly, before the kids catch a glimpse and think they should have sweets instead of the crunchy baby carrots and cubes of cheese I’ve laid out on their plates.

Even with giving away all the candy that contains nuts (husband is allergic), all the super chewy, choking hazard pieces, and the 2 sandwich bags full of treats I sent with the husband to leave out for people at work, we still have way too much candy.

Part of me is thinking maybe the candy fairy should come collect some and leave a non-cavity inducing gift behind.  Of course, all that candy did come in handy last year when we made our graham cracker gingerbread houses…  And sometimes that little piece of chocolate is the perfect pick-me-up on a bad day…

So what else to do with it?

Why learn, of course!

With so much candy, I decided today would be “candy day” for my preschoolers.

They knew right away that candy started with the letter “C.”  They practiced writing the letter with dry erase markers (like they did with “M” when we did monster math).  Then we used M&M’s to form the letter “C.”teaching the letter c

 

While they each enjoyed 1 piece of candy, we sorted through old magazine pictures to find things that started with “C.”  There were lots of cats and cars!

 

After that we worked on sorting M&M’s by color and then did simple patterns.  (I emptied two little bags ahead of time so I could create patterns that would work with the M&M’s we had.)what to do with left over halloween candy

 

Then we flipped our papers over to do some candy addition.uses for halloween candy

Finally we had fun playing tic-tac-toe and doing some artwork.activities with candy

 

By then they were itching to eat some M&M’s!  (Smarties, sweet tarts, and other candies that would work well for this, too.)

 

Have you done anything creative with your candy?

 

 

 

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Comments

  2. I love this idea! And I’m also loving the “candy fairy” concept 🙂 I actually was just reading about a candy brittle you can make with leftover halloween chocolate. Unfortunately we were only left with the fruity candies after the trick or treaters were done. Fortunately the hubs loooooves sugar, so it’s already gone lol
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    • I love the candy fairy idea… I’m thinking we need to invent an “old toy” fairy here, too. It’s hard to get them to let go of anything.

      • Sometimes I have to go through the toys when they are in school to get rid of any broken ones or toys I haven’t seen them play with in a while. They have so many that they usually don’t notice that the older (and not played with) ones are gone. If I do it with them home, we get rid of nothing tho!
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  3. What a cool idea! Or should I say yummy idea 🙂 Our school uses drawing pictures for the math (in the younger grades) and they make it difficult sometimes. Like in a little space they may have to draw 10 flowers or ducks – there have been times I told my youngest to just draw circles because there was no way she was fitting all the objects the paper said to draw!! Tho her teacher is cool about it. It is math and not drawing class lol.

    I have used candy a couple times or their toys. More or less to help with math homework. It does help them out without giving them the answers 🙂
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  4. Oh, no, you made me do math with the spam protection, lol. We’ve been doing activities with candy, too. We’ve stuck to sorting/counting the individually wrapped candy. This is a great idea with smaller pieces, too.
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