Also they were asked if they planned on turning their parents into candy-canes when they got home. Wrapping Miss Merry in red & white streamers turned her into a candy-caneД«eing asked by the emcee 'What kind of candy-cane' they turned Miss Merry into. They had an amazing time! When they got through the game, in true kid-heaven form, they were rewarded with handfulls of candy, and snow-cones.ДЄfter the life-sized candyland game, It was time for a new game, make a life-sized candy cane! The boys were paired with Miss Merry, and another great volunteer, and they proceeded to turn Miss Merry into a candy-cane. Because our boys are physically able, the transportation methods involved dancing, crawling, spinning, crab-walking, etc.

The boys took turns pulling a card, and then they had to go to whatever the card said, by way of whatever the volunteer came up with. She had GIANT candy-land cards, with colored squares of single or double, just like the real game. Over at the playground, the boys were paired with an incredible volunteer, a college student, who told us that this was where she chose to spend all of her Sunday evenings. We were told later that the older ones had an amazing time. The older kids asked to spend some time in the gamerooms, and we figured that they needed a break from the parents, so we took the younger boys over to be pawns in the game. Because our picture's were taken at night, we were unable to capture the magic of this place. A playground with a candyland theme, built of accesible ramps is a sight to behold. This playground was aptly named 'boundless', for it's wheelchair accessibility. Although our plan was to go back to the villa to relax, we were told that tonight's village activity was a life-size candyland game in which the kids are the characters at Matthew's Boundless Playground.

We got back to the village in time for dinner in the Gingerbread House.

Life size candyland characters