Giant Gumball Machine – Whole Class – Yearlong -Behavioral Incentive

Giant Gumball Machine – Whole Class – Yearlong -Behavioral Incentive

Here's a big  gumball machine that I use as a class incentive.  I print the gumball machine on our school’s poster printer. Then, I hang it in the classroom, low enough for all of the students to be able to reach. Near it, I have a small basket with colored dot stickers and a skinny sharpie marker.

Here’s how we fill it up:

Every student who reaches a set goal can write their name on a dot sticker and add it to the gumball machine.  The machine slowly fills up as the weeks pass.  Once the machine fills up, we have a class celebration.

Gumballs in my class are earned for:

An A on a test

Reading a published piece in the Author’s Chair

Bringing back a signed report card envelope or field trip paperwork on the first day

Some other reasons might be:

A random act of kindness

A thank you for __________.

Reading a book to the class

Doing extra jobs in the classoom

The giant gumball machine hangs in our classroom and serves as a reminder to the kiddos that they are all one team and when the they work together toward a goal, it pays off.

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