Oct. 30, 2009
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Games My Family Likes
Did you read this week's The Homeschool Minute? It was about the games the families of the THM team like to play. As I'm a behind the scenes team member I'll post the games my family likes to play here. Don't get THM? Sign up!
When we lived in Oregon our family played a lot of the standard games at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Grandma loves games! We would play:
- Farkle
- Yahtzee
- Uno
- Phase 10
- Chicken Foot
- Apples to Apples
- Crouquet
- Badminton
Which are all very fun, but the games I like the most are the ones my family made up or recreated.
- Famous Last Words--invent new and funny tombstone epitaphs or dying breath statements. Laughter or groans let's you know how well you are playing.
- Paper Airplane Races--My children would create several paper airplanes, drawing fancy designs on them, and then they would race them. After a few races the bad planes were auctioned off to the other players, and then they would race all of their planes again. The person with the fastest plane wins.
- License Plate Capitol--When we see a license plate from a different state the person who can call out the correct capitol of that state first wins.
- Name that tune--We hum a few notes of a tune and everyone tries to guess what it is. The person who guesses correctly gets to do the next tune.
That's all that I can remember for now, but I know we've made up a few more. I love how creative my children can be! We have many other things we play on a regular basis but they aren't exactly games. Like talking in a funny accent. Dear Man is good at Australian, Bluejane at Chinese (she's also very good at imitating movie characters), and Kekoa an English accent. I'm good at laughing at all their antics. Poor Eyebright has my talent for accents--nil. With all these ridiculous accents, conversations can take an interesting turn!
Families can be so much fun, take time to play with yours! You don't need to buy a boxed game or create a game night. It just takes imagination, a sense of humor, and an opportunity to stifle boredom.
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Oct. 31, 2009
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Loving daughter. Never did get a Sit N Spin.