A few months back I decided to teach Honeybun (and therefore Sugarplum) the game of Slap Jacks as a way to work on her number\u00a0relationships\u00a0\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t exactly remember the official rules to Slap Jack (I know, I know\u2026I\u2019ve been since informed many times there\u2019s only really one rule) so I developed a hybrid of War and Slap Jacks.<\/p>\n
I removed all the aces, queens and kings from a deck and split the remaining car among all players. \u00a0Each round every player puts a card face up in the middle and if there is a Jack you try to be the first to slap it.\u00a0 Whoever slaps first gets all the cards.\u00a0 If there is no Jack, then whoever played the highest card gets the pile.\u00a0 If there are two cards that are the highest you have a \u201cwar\u201d where each player (only those with the matching highest cards) put two cards face down and one face up and whoever gets the highest face up card of the war gets the entire pile of cards (you repeat this if cards match again\u2026we\u2019ve had as many as 3 wars on one round).\u00a0 When a player runs out of cards in their stack, they pick up the ones they\u2019ve won each round and continue playing with those.\u00a0 Technically the game is over when one player has all the cards but it takes a long time to get there and we usually don\u2019t make it that far.<\/p>\n
Where the learning\/math\/number relationships part comes in is having Honeybun\u00a0declare which card is highest. \u00a0She did very well at this from the start and can now announce the highest almost as fast as I can.\u00a0 The game has also helped Sugarplum with her number recognition and when just her and I play I make her tell me the numbers and then I\u2019ll announce the winner \u201cFour is more than\/higher than\/bigger than two\u201d.<\/p>\n
While Slap Jack has become a favorite and most request game in our house, it\u2019s also taken a bit of a strange turn.\u00a0 The girls got Disney playing cards in their stockings at Christmas, Sugarplum’s are Fairies and Honeybun’s\u00a0are Princesses.\u00a0 This has resulted in Sugarplum wanting to play Slap Jack with her cards but not all the Jacks are the same so instead we\u2019ve adapted the game to be \u201cSlap Tinkerbell\u201d (simply for the fact I don\u2019t know any of the other fairies by name).\u00a0 Sugarplum now walks around begging to play \u201cSlap Tinkerbell\u201d!<\/p>\n
Then just this morning she decided she wanted to play with Honeybun’s\u00a0princess cards.\u00a0 This is how the actual conversation went down:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMommy, I want to play Slap Jack\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOk, do you want to play with your Fairy cards or regular cards?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI want Honeybun’s\u00a0Princess cards.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOk.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take out all the letter cards.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMommy, don\u2019t take out Cinderella!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s ok, there\u2019s more Cinderellas, we only need the number cards.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWho should we slap?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u00a0 We should slap\u2026Belle!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOk, we\u2019ll play Slap Belle this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few months back I decided to teach Honeybun (and therefore Sugarplum) the game of Slap Jacks as a way to work on her number\u00a0relationships\u00a0\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t exactly remember the official rules to Slap Jack (I know, I know\u2026I\u2019ve been since informed many times there\u2019s only really one rule) so I developed a hybrid of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-home-school-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3241,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/3241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}