Tuesday, August 9, 2011

The Ikea Game

We got an Ikea Catalog in the mail!  It is big thick and full of rooms with all sorts of lovely furniture options!

I promptly sat down and showed the kids how to play.  Princess started with a budget of $1000 and started to design the dream bedroom for a 'grown up girl'.

She started subtracting pretty well, but then started to get confused between dollars and cents.  Some prices are listed like this: $125  while others are listed $125  This confused her into thinking she had to pay almost the same price for the bedding as she did for the bed!

After we worked that out she has a cute list of a neato room, oh and she practiced plenty of math.

The boys had no interest in trying the game out, and I didn't push.  Though I just might challenge them all to design a living room or kitchen together some day.

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