25+ Ways to Learn with Candy

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Maybe you’re more self-disciplined than me and you have LOADS of leftover candy lying around your house.  Maybe you don’t.  In any case, here are some activities our homeschool group recently did with candy…AND a round-up of more FABULOUS IDEAS on using candy to learn.

After decorating paper bags (to store all their candy), we read Harriet’s Halloween Candy, a book that has some fabulous opportunities for making predictions and inferences…and a great lesson for what will happen if you eat too much candy.

Then the games began!

1. [download id="16"] (This Reading Mama FREEBIE; game with 1 die)

2. Boo Bump (3 dice addition game)

3. Sink or Float with Candy-a lesson on surface tension

4. Skittle Color Sorting  - I used markers to color in each circle so MBug (currently 2 years old) would know where to put each color

5. Skittle Graphing

6. The floating M- we focused on making predictions…what will happen if we put our M&M’s in water?

7. M&M Color Mixing- we mixed the primary colors to create the secondary colors

Here are some more YUMMY activities you can do with that leftover candy

8. M&M Christmas Tree-making pictures with candy

9. M&M Graphing

10. Learning with the Monty Hall Puzzle and M&Ms

11. Painting with Jelly Beans

12. Candy Crafts

13. Tootsie Roll Pops: Making Math and Science Yummy

14. Candy Patterns

15. Gummy Bear Math

16. Don’t Eat Jack

17. Candy Experiments

18. Candy Sequencing

19. Candy Corn Reading Activities

20. Melting and Dissovling with Candy

21. Halloween Candy Sorting

22. Halloween Tonging and Sorting

23. Playing with Candy

24. M&Ms Corn Roll

25. Gumdrop Sculptures

26. Candy Experiements

27. M&M Games to Pass the Time

28. More Candy Experiments

29. Candy Experiments, Learning, Activities, Crafts, Recipes, and More!

 

 

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~Becky