The Candies Last Stand: Fun Activity Ideas

Create simple stick puppets of your favorite candy characters from the book and put on a hilarious puppet show reenacting their great escape.

Instructions:

1. After reading 'The Candies' Last Stand', talk about your favorite candy characters.

2. Draw your own versions of the candies on construction paper and carefully cut them out.

3. Glue each candy character onto the top of a craft stick to create a puppet.

4. Use a couch or a large box as a stage and put on your own 'Candies' Last Stand' puppet show!

You will need:

• Jumbo Craft Sticks

• Construction Paper

• Child-Safe Scissors

• Glue Stick

Build an exciting indoor obstacle course using pillows, boxes, and blankets, and then help your favorite small toys (as the 'candies') navigate the treacherous escape route.

Instructions:

1. Talk about how the candies escaped in the story.

2. Gather your materials: pillows for 'mountains,' blankets for 'tunnels,' and boxes for 'hiding spots.'

3. Work together to design and build an escape route across the living room floor.

4. Choose your 'candy' toys and take turns guiding them through the obstacle course from start to finish.

You will need:

• Pillows and Couch Cushions

• Blankets

• Cardboard Boxes

• Small Toys (to act as candies)

Conduct a fun and simple blind taste test with a few different candies. Discover your family's favorite treat and then create a colorful bar graph to show the results.

Instructions:

1. Choose 3-4 different types of small candies (e.g., gummy, chocolate, hard candy).

2. Have one person wear the blindfold while another gives them one candy at a time to taste and guess.

3. After everyone has had a turn, have each person vote for their favorite.

4. Draw a simple bar graph on paper to show how many votes each candy received.

You will need:

• Assorted Small Candies

• Blindfold or Scarf

• Paper

• Markers or Crayons

If a new candy were to join the rebellion, what would it look like? Use modeling clay or dough to invent, design, and name a brand-new candy character.

Instructions:

1. Brainstorm ideas for a new candy. What is its flavor? What is its special power?

2. Use modeling clay as the base for your candy creation.

3. Add personality with googly eyes for face and pipe cleaners for arms or antennae.

4. Give your new candy character a fun name and decide what role it would play in the story.

You will need:

• Modeling Clay or Play-Doh

• Googly Eyes

• Pipe Cleaners

Use a bag of colorful candies for a delicious math activity. Practice sorting by color, counting, and creating repeating patterns.

Instructions:

1. Pour the candies onto a clean surface or tray.

2. Ask your child to sort all the candies into small bowls based on their color.

3. Count how many candies are in each color group. Which has the most? The least?

4. Use the sorted candies to create simple patterns, like red-green-red-green, and have your child continue the sequence.

You will need:

• Bag of Colorful Candies (like Skittles or M&Ms)

• Small Bowls or a Sorting Tray