Spaghetti Tower & Money skills

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Description

Beavers will play games in order to earn tokens, they will then use the tokens to buy spaghetti and marshmallows the aim is to make the tallest tower (to make it harder you could have a points system which includes points for longest /widest tower)


Resources

-Raw Spaghetti
-Marshmallows (or something to stick the spaghetti into)
-Some sort of tokens (e.g. Milk bottle lids)
- other materials for games that you play (e.g. bean bags, hula hoops, cones)

Instructions

Put Beavers into teams of equal size and get them to play games in order to earn tokens (scale these to the game and number of beavers as appropriate)

- Could include bean bag game - throw beanbag in hula hoops/ between cones and earn tokens based upon where it lands

After Playing games each team is given a default about (e.g. 10 spaghetti and 5 marshmallows)
As a team they take the tokens to the Kiosk to trade them for extra spaghetti and marshmallows
example pricing 2 tokens for a marshmallow and 1 token for a piece of spaghetti,
as a team they then decide what to buy with there tokens



Tags

  • Budgeting
  • mini pioneering
  • money
  • Money Skills

Badge Links

  • Camp Craft - Pioneering
  • Money Skills - Decisions