The boys and I attended a "cent sale" yesterday. A young girl from this family who are a part of our unschooling group came up with the idea and all the kids brought toys they longer wanted/used to sell for pennies that were then donated to the local animal shelter. The kids also brought their own pennies to use to buy things they wanted from the stuff everyone else brought.
It was a big motivator for the boys to go through their toys and decide what they wanted to get rid of. They came up with a good size pile of stuff that they no longer wanted that we were able to bring to the sale.
Damek picked out 2 small lego cars to buy and ended up dumping the rest of his pennies into the collection jar for the animal shelter. Kyan bought the following: a toy truck, a portable keyboard, 2 stuffed dinosaurs, a battery operated transformer, a batter operated microphone, The Thing action figure, a rescue heroes action figure, & a dragon whose wings & mouth move by pressing buttons on it's back.
After the kids sold/bought all that they wanted (the remaining toys were going to be donated to charity) they spent the rest of the afternoon playing inside and outside, snacking and also taking a rather long dip in the hot tub:)
Kyan fell asleep on the way home, but woke up as I was carrying him into the house. We made homemade macaroni and cheese for dinner and Kyan played with his new toys while Damek played on the computer and then a bit later with his new lego cars until we went to bed, where Damek and I stayed up until midnight reading on 'The Complete Chronicles Of Narnia'.
