Candy Favorites is delighted to be partnering with Chronicle Books to announce the release of Candy 1 to 20. This colorful new board book, published by Chronicle Books, uses vibrant photos of classic candies to teach basic counting skills.
To celebrate Candy 1 to 20, we'll be giving away 5 copies of the book. Each of them is signed by the author! To enter, just share your experience of candy as a teaching tool.
Did you learn probability through the colors of M&M's? Are you a teacher who uses the squares of Hershey Bars to teach fractions? Or was your favorite candy used as a reward as you learned important life lessons?
Since candy is a powerful motivator and positive reinforcement for all ages, the possibilities are endless. Send us your most memorable candy-fueled learning experiences, and you'll be entered to win one of 5 signed copies of Candy 1 to 20. You can
email us or submit the form below.
Winners will be announced Friday, October 28.
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M&Ms and Skittles are wonderful for sorting and learning colors. We also love conducting candy experiments with Halloween candy.
I am a fifth grade teacher and we use candy all the time with our little buddies. We do activities like candy cane measuring, m & m graphing, reindeer sandwiches, counting w/ skittles etc. The students LOVE buddy time.
I teach 7th grade science and one of the topics we cover is Chemistry. Chemistry can be a tough subject for some kids. I know it was always difficult for me when I was in school. When we are talking about Elements, Atoms, Compounds, Molecules and and Symbols I use candy to help teach the topic! We make candy compounds!
The students have a variety of different candies. The first thing we do is discuss what a symbol is and how we can represent the different candy with a symbol. Ex: Hershey Kisses would be Hk. Skittles would be S. Then we discuss how on the periodic table the elements are also represented with symbols. Ex: Oxygen is O. After we have our symbols we put the create compounds and molecules using the candy. We could put 2 skittles and 1 hershey kiss together and the formula would be S2Hk (subscript on the 2). We then discuss how there are 2 skittles so there are 2 atoms of skittles in the compound. There is only 1 hershey kiss so there is only 2 atom of hershey kiss. We do this for a variety of different examples and use the candy as a tool to help understand some ideas that are a little difficult to understand without having a visual model to look at.
The kids LOVE this activity because not only does it make chemistry a little easier to understand, but they get to eat the candy after! I love this activity because I immediately have their attention if there is candy involved and sometimes getting the attention of a middle schooler is not the easiest thing to do! Learning can be fun and candy helps it be fun… and Yummy!
Candy was the first commodity that I understood held value. I spent most of my allowance on candy and I always wanted candy. I remember being devastated watching the market price for a candy bar go from $0.50 to $0.60, which meant that my $1 allowance no longer could buy 2 candy bars.
Right after Halloween, I would wait for a major sale and then buy large amounts of whatever was left. I remember eating some 400 dum dums as I would do my homework, it was like my first addiction. I still engage in the practice of buying and hoarding large amounts of candy when the price falls below 75% off, although I largely lost my sweet tooth.
Skittle Graphs
My homeschooled kids learned about graphing using Skittles.