Create Your Own Marshmallow Test
Supplies
Marshmallows
Activity
{Pull out a marshmallow.} What is this? Do you like marshmallows? [Allow for answers.] What would you do if you were put in an empty room and given a marshmallow? Would you eat it? [Allow for answers.] What if you were put in an empty room and when you were given the marshmallow you were told this: “Here is a marshmallow. I am going to leave the room for a little while. You can either eat this marshmallow, OR don’t eat the marshmallow while I’m gone, and when I return, I’ll give you another one. Then you’ll have two.” What would you do? [Allow for answers.]
Watch Marshmallow Test Video
That marshmallow was a temptation to those kids! What did most of them do? [Waited for the second marshmallow.] They knew that something better was coming and they wanted to wait for it instead of eating the one marshmallow right away.