Candy Land Fun in Preschool

On Friday night, my Preschool classroom was transformed into a life sized Candy Land game board.

My 34 families all contributed projects to the game and they were so awesome.

The Preschoolers worked for two weeks on projects for our classroom to help decorate.

Everyone who came through on Friday night seemed to thoroughly enjoy our game.

The last time we did a life sized Candy Land was about nine years ago, before digital cameras, so I had no photos to help me remember what we did back then.

This time I took many, many photos to document the event.

When I checked on Pinterest there was very little for life sized Candy Land.  I hope to put my photos on Pinterest so others can benefit from my parents' creativity.

Now all I need to do is figure out how to post things on there.

Here are some photos of our room:

This is cupcake canyon which is not actually a part of the Candy Land board, but I added it since cupcakes are so popular now and they were fun to create.

Our Lollipop Woods were wonderful and filled with big lollipops.

 Here are the Gumdrops Mountains, so many creative ways to make gumdrops.

 Our ice cream island had a bowl of Dippin dots, a big ice cream bar, a banana split, and some huge ice cream cones.

 I also added Skittle Stream just because who doesn't like a skittle.
One of my parents made this roll of smarties which were very cool

We also added Teddy Bear Lane instead of Plumpy's Plum tree.

Here is the Peppermint Forest.
At each of eight areas we had a basket of candy that the players could help themselves to as they moved around the board.
There were Teddy Grahams, Starlight Mints, Skittles, Gumdrops, Lollipops, Circus peanuts, Resse's peanut butter cups (for cupcakes), and ice cream cones that I made out of bugels with a white cheddar cheese ball attached to the bugel with some frosting.

As each family came to the starting line, they picked up a brown lunch bag and a stack of candy land cards.
There were about ten cards in each stack.
Then they played the game just like you would do on a regular board except you are the mover.

Judging by the smiles, I think everyone had a great time!