Sweepstakes Surprises
Materials:
- Art and writing supplies
- envelopes
Is your family on a lucky streak? Then have your child enter each family member in a homespun lottery.
Your child can make a variety of prizes such as drawings, modeling-clay sculptures, greeting cards, and poems. (Make sure he or she makes enough items so that everybody gets one.) Then have your child write the prize names on slips of paper (one prize per slip) and put each in a separate envelope. Mix up the envelopes and place one under each family member's dinner plate.
Instead of homemade prizes, older children might substitute "service coupons" (slips of paper that entitle the bearer to such gifts as "breakfast in bed," "reading a story," and, "closet cleaning"). The recipient gets to decide on a time to redeem the prize.
After dinner (or at another appropriate time when the rest of the family is at home), have participants take turns opening the envelopes and reading their prizes aloud. Your child can present the homemade gifts and elaborate on the service prizes. Isn't it great when everyone is a winner?
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© 2005 by Steve and Ruth Bennett. Excerpted from 365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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