[Edu] My 1st Gaming Workshop

[Kristin]

Sounds like this was lots of fun!  Yay pyramids!  Yay Kimberly!

Thanks for teaching families how to play with our pyramids!

-Kristin

--On Jan 29, 2008 Kimberly Terrill <kiter5 at gmail.com> wrote:


> We had 15 kids sign up, only 9 came. 3 were mine of course.
> Kids ages: (including mine)
> 3,4,6,9,9,10,11,13,14 (four families)
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> We started with Treehouse. I did a couple sample rounds, then split them
> up into 2 groups.Each group played a couple games of Treehouse. Then we
> split. Gavin (14) taught ThinIce to a couple kids (we play slightly
> different- seems to work better with kids). Connor (13) taught Volcano to
> a few. I played Martian Match-Up with the younger kids.
> Martian Chess and Black Ice were also played.
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> I enjoyed people watching. Seeing how the different parents interact with
> the kids and seeing the differences in the kids. It was very obvious
> which parent played games with his little girl and which parents didn;t
> play many games at all. (which the parents confirmed when we talked a bit
> about what games they liked playing at home)
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> The 2 moms who didn't play many games with their kids asked a lot about
> the Treehouse games and checked to make sure the store sold them. I don't
> think they purchased, but they were interested and both plan to come back
> to more game workshops. And whether or not they purchase in the future. I
> am just glad to excite parents about playing games with their kids.
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> I have a second game workshop Friday, then I go to one a week. Friday is
> full, so I guess that means we should get about 1/2- 2/3 of the signed up
> amount.And if it goes as well as today, hopefully the game days will pick
> up momentum.
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> I decided to have a 'bring your own game to play' time after the Looney
> Lab workshop hour. It seemed to work well.
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> ---Kimberly
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