This March, this kid and I decided it was time for him to learn how to play a good, traditional board game. What better to start with than Candy Land?
We spent a few days learning how to play the game during Macie's naps. Ephram loved picking out the guys and deciding which color he would be and then suggesting a color for me, too. He immediately understood what it meant if a card had double colors instead of just one color spot. And he loved figuring out how to get his guy to the next spot.
(Even if he sometimes seemed to want to jump ahead a few extra spots. On accident, of course.)
Turn taking was a little difficult, but we overcame that pretty quickly.
Choosing the card from the top of the stack, instead of the middle or the bottom, took a little more time.
So I decided to lay out three cards and let him choose which one he wanted to take. Right away, he started taking the card that would get him further in the game.
Smart cookie.
With Candy Land, Memory and Cootie... and a few card games too, Ephram and I are starting to get a nice little collection of fun games to play.
And the next week I taught him Chutes and Ladders.
But Candy Land was still his favorite.
Ephram found these pictures on my computer while I was teaching a piano lesson one day.
He really liked them.
I hadn't yet done anything with them, but he knew what he wanted to do.
And since I like his edits, and the fact that they reaffirmed how excited he is about this game,
I kept them.
Love this boy.
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