Usually I take all the candy Halloween night, put it all together, hide it and give everyone one or two pieces a day. This year the three older kids protested. They didn't want me to mix the candy. Well I did anyway, but Adam and I came up with a new idea. I dumped all the candy on the floor and gave each kid a plastic bag with their name on it. Then we went oldest to youngest and each person got to pick their favorite candy until it was all gone. I still get to say when they get a piece, but they have their own bag with their candy in it. They love it!
Ariana loves the suckers! Ammon took most of the Starbursts. Britain like the Twix. Kalixta picked anything chocolate. Nik and Zoe got a good mixture of everything. Now everyone is happy!
Picking was fun. Ariana really got into it at the end. She would hold her candy up over her head like a trophy. Sometimes she would even take two pieces to make sure I was paying attention.
We will see how this works out, but so far so good!
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Chuckle….”to see if I was paying attention.” You should write children’s books. Entertaining for children, humorous for parents. And I also like the idea of the mixed candy and so would my kids. I’d like to throw the candy out, but I’m too frugal so I end up trying to eat it faster than they do and then I wonder why I have to spend more money on bigger clothes. Hmmm.
great idea! sounds like it was fun for all! 🙂