Daddy is the Candy Man at our house.  He has a definite sweet tooth!

It is great fun to turn that desire for something sweet into a learning lesson with the kids.



Recently, Daddy had some Skittles candy on hand.

Skittles are a fun manipulative to use for counting, sorting colors, and mixing flavors.

Senses used include:
Touch
Taste
Smell
Sight

Skittles are also good for using motor skills to pick up the small shapes, and building brain cells to add, subtract, and estimate, while counting the candy.

Several ideas to expand this math fun might include using colored dice and rolling a color or counting out the number of pieces that match the dice, graphing, sorting pieces by number or color onto a mat, putting candies in water and seeing the water change color, mixing colors in water, putting candy in a paper bag and while blind folded guess what color or flavor of candy you grabbed, etc.



This is one math lesson that no one wants to miss out on. 

Thanks Candy Man!


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