Right now ds is *loving* Music Maestro (an old game grandma found on ebay) and Sum Swamp... what games do your kids love? I'm trying to find fun and different games for our collection
The favorites right now are the ones we got them for Christmas - Tsuro, Gobblet, JR. and Coocoo (the last two are Blue Orange games, I would love more by them).
They also really like Twister, Operation, and Candy Land! And, as mentioned above, Uno.
We've started playing games together as a family 1-2 nights a week and it is so much fun. We've done it before but sporadically rather than weekly like we've been doing.
Trouble is a favorite here too.
Also:
Chutes and Ladders
UNO (not a board game but still a favorite)
Dino Math Tracks
Hiss (not educational really but a favorite here)
Clue Jr
most any BINGO game-we have them for almost all topics I think LOL!
Fruit Salad (cheap math fractions game)
- Scrabble, Jr.
- Zingo
- CandyLand
- Pirate's Cove
- Chutes and Ladders
- dominoes (o.k., not a board game!)
- memory (o.k., another one that's not a board game...)
- Uno (yet another one that has no board)
Originally Posted by mamabain
monopoly (not the new kind that has a credit card instead of money)
Yikes! Really? Well that takes all the fun out of being the banker!
Okay, off the top of my head:
The Amazing Labyrinth
Apples to Apples
Uno
Yahtzee
In a Pickle
Countdown
Sorry
Trouble
Battleship
Payday
Scrabble (play cooperatively)
Boggle (same as above)
Geo Bee Challenge (by National Geographic)
Card games (War, Crazy Eights, Gin Rummy, Poker, Go Fish, Solitaire, etc.)
Mancala
Checkers
Mastermind
i forgot to post that if you are homeschooling on a budget or are planning to homeschool and your kids are too young now: get your games at the thrift store.
i have had excellent luck buying games that are used, usually with all their pieces, for $1.50 up to $3.00 at thrift stores and garage sales. just keep your eye out. even if you get a game missing many pieces, you spent little money. this has saved us tons, instead of spending $16.99 per new game!
Sleeping Grump
Caves and Claws
Trouble
Monopoly Jr.
A Beautiful Place
The Lost Jungle (a dinosaur game to play after chipping out the dino from the clay!)
Rebound
Snakes and Ladders
Originally Posted by mamabain
i forgot to post that if you are homeschooling on a budget or are planning to homeschool and your kids are too young now: get your games at the thrift store.
i have had excellent luck buying games that are used, usually with all their pieces, for $1.50 up to $3.00 at thrift stores and garage sales. just keep your eye out. even if you get a game missing many pieces, you spent little money. this has saved us tons, instead of spending $16.99 per new game!
A few times a year TRU has BOGO Free or buy two get the third free. Not thrift store prices, but it is a pretty good deal if you are looking for gifts.
We love many of the above, and lots of card games. But our all-time favorite game these days is chess. I had forgotten how to play but my son's Russian tutor taught him to play and now the whole family is into the game. It is really fun! I never would have thought my then 5 yo would be interested but he loves it, and taught his brother to play (with some special rules--such as the oldest player (that is, my oldest son) gets to be the white guys and that only white queens can move like knights, etc--that I had to correct once I found a good chess for kids book and boned up on the rules myself.)
It's a great game to encourage logical thinking. But be prepared--there is nothing quite like trying your absolute best (and even staying up late at night to read chess strategies on the internet) but still getting clobbered by your 4 yo.
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