Wednesday, September 3, 2014

The Paperclip Game

I stole the idea of the paperclip game from the articles and blog of the man that literally bought a house with "one red paperclip".  I had a Girl Scout troop playing a few years ago, and it brought lots of grins and giggles.  At first, children are certain that they can not possibly get anything of any value by trading a paperclip, but they are always surprised in the end.

We started this game on Family Life Challenge a few days ago.  Next, I purchased some large paperclips at Family Dollar.  Tarja jumped on this game right away.  She had never played before, so it was a new adventure for her.  Below, you can see that we each have our paperclips and are ready to play.

 Tarja traded her paperclip for these sunglasses.
 Since her daddy likes sunglasses, she asked him what he would give her for them, and he gave her one of Melody's new books!  Uh oh!
Melody was a good sport, and gave her this wind chime in exchange for her book.
Tarja took her wind chime to twirling practice and traded for this cute wrist wallet.
I made my first trade, and got this purple pen.  I'll keep you posted on how we do!  Can we buy a house with one paperclip?  We shall find out!