Prize Box for Homeschooling

A prize box is a box of prizes used as an incentive to do all work and do it well. It can be a cardboard box festively decorated and put in a prominent place in your school room as a reminder.
In the early 90's when we first started homeschooling we used the cereal prizes for our prize box. We were going to do the same thing now but realized the prizes aren't very good any more. At that time the kids fought over the cereal prize so it had to be earned out of the prize box.
Prizes were earned by finishing a book, memorizing times tables, doing chores, keeping room clean for a week, or finishing a reader.
Later we had a point system where things like coming to school dressed and ready for a new day, room cleaned up, hair combed, on time for school, brush teeth, bed on time etc. were worth one point each per day. Chores also had a certain amount of points depended on whether they were daily or weekly chores. School subjects were worth one point a day for each class. Special points were awarded for finishing a book, memorizing times tables etc.
We had big prizes and little prizes depending on how many points were earned.
This year we will have items like a bag of beads, candy bar, box of crayons, paints, small cross stitch project, brush, mirror etc. for small prizes.
For large prizes we will have a bag of jerky, a tool, a new book, crossword puzzles, puzzle, stay up late on weekend or any other items on sale or of interest to the child.
We learned early on that no one was allowed to look in the box unless they were retrieving a prize and they only had 3 minutes to pick their prize.
This worked well since if I was at a clearance sale and added stuff to the box the kids wouldn't know until they had earned the prize and were allowed to look. They loved it.