Play Your Way Cafe

My favorite thing in the world is hearing from you guys and knowing that somewhere there is a family enjoying some family time with one of my products!! It drives me to keep pushing forward and keep going so “Thank You” to everyone who takes the time to send a review it means the world!! And “thank you” to amazing partners like that help us reach new customers all the time! 🥰....

Candy Land Backstory! So cool!! Did you know this??

Fun fact: 1949--In the midst of the polio epidemic--a disease that placed tens of thousands of children inside iron lungs, and many thousands more around the country quarantined at home--a young San Diego schoolteacher named Eleanor Abbott invented Candy Land, one of the most popular board games of all time. Abbott created the game inside a polio ward, as a patient herself, with the hope of giving the immobilized children around her a momentary sense of freedom and mobility. As a way of further connecting with the kids, Abbott featured on the game board an illustration of a boy with a leg brace. Milton Bradley was quick to buy the game from Abbott. And to this day, Candy Land continues to be popular, more than 65 years after the disease was eradicated. Of course so many of us played this game as kids, but I found the back story fascinating. Who knew ? Makes me wonder ...what will be invented from this pandemic?...