Writing: Write about one thing you want to do on summer vacation? Do you want to go somewhere? Do you want to see someone? Do you just want to hang out and be with family?

Minute to Win It!:

MOVIN’ ON UP: 

Each player starts with a stack of 25 red cups with one blue cup at the top of the stack. Start by moving the top blue cup to the bottom of the stack, and continue moving cups from the top to the bottom until the blue cup is back at the bottom of the stack again. You have 1 minute to complete the challenge!!

Math: Matching the same number, planning, number recognition

4. SPOONS

This fun, fast-paced game gets intense quickly! Players will have to keep up as they match four of a kind and pay attention to the pile of spoons in the middle simultaneously! You will also need a few plastic spoons for this fun game.

HOW TO PLAY

Number of Players: 3+

Objective: Don’t be the only person without a spoon when the round ends.

Deal: Each player is dealt four cards face down, one at a time. The rest of the deck is kept face down and put next to the dealer. The spoons are also set up in the middle of the players. Place one fewer spoon than the total number of people playing. (So three spoons for four players).

Playing: Players will look at their cards and keep them hidden from the other players. The dealer starts the game by drawing one card from the deck and discarding a card of his choice, face down to the person on his left.

The player to the dealer’s left will pick up that card and choose to either keep it or pass it to the player on their left, face down. Each time a card is picked up, a new card must be discarded.

The dealer (and all the other players) continue to pick up and discard new cards, keeping the game moving quickly.

When a person gets four of the same card, they can discreetly grab a spoon from the pile in the middle. As soon as a spoon is grabbed from the middle, other players can quickly grab a spoon as well.

The player who doesn’t grab a spoon in time loses the round and gets an “S” assigned to them. The next time they lose a round, they get the letter “P.” This continues until they spell SPOONS.

Winner: The person who spells SPOONS first loses the game. When a player is out of the game, remove one of the spoons from the middle and continue to play with the remaining players. The last player remaining wins!