I remembered a past post by Stacy Julian about Summer Bingo. At the time, Parker was too little to do that but I remembered thinking "Genius!" So, I looked it up on-line last night, did a bit of quick research on Pinterest this morning and ta-da we have our own Summer Bingo here now. Parker is super excited. I can't wait to see how this works and I might have to change up the rules a bit as we move through the summer but I am going to kick this off on Sunday morning.
I first made a Bingo card in MS Word (5 columns up and down) with activities that encourage help around the house and keeping her school skills fresh. I will make a new card each week and some weeks will be easier and more fun than others (like when we are at the beach).
I then made up rules based off my research. Our rules for the game are:
1. Before
playing bingo each day:
a.
Be
clean and dressed
b.
Eat
breakfast
c.
Clean
up your breakfast mess
d.
Turn
off the lights in your bedroom and bathroom
2.
You
get a new card on each Sunday
3.
You
get one free sticker-you can place it on any square (but once you use it one
week, you can’t put on same square again)
4.
You
have to tell Mom/Dad when you are working on a square-we give the stickers out
5.
Each
time you complete 5 in a row, you receive a ticket
Ticket
Redemption:
1 Ticket= 30 minutes of either: water play, computer
time, or messy craft time
2 Tickets= Movie Night
3 Tickets= Trip to Dollar Store
4 Tickets= Ice Cream Night
5 Tickets= Play date or Sleepover
Blackout= Special event from bucket + $5
Blackout + 2 Bonus Tickets= Fun outing (CDM, Water
Park, etc) + $5
Blackout every week during summer= Huge fun outing
(TBD)
You can earn bonus tickets by:
1 Bonus Ticket-Completing a full week in your
workbook
1 Bonus Ticket-Read for 50 minutes over the course
of the week
We are still working out what the "huge fun outing" will be. Perhaps a trip to the American Girl Doll store, an amusement park or some other really big motivating reward.
I then created some special event tickets as the blackout rewards. Things like an ice cream date with Dad, pool time, baseball game, etc.
I also made up some tickets for when she gets a "Bingo". I have placed these in jars up where little hands can't reach. I'll keep the stickers there too for when she completes a square.
Here's to summer and hoping this wards off boredom and helps encourage Parker to help around the house and work on summer activities to keep her fresh for first grade.
