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Getting Ready for Spring: Make a Family Game Basket

March 14 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

How to build a family game basket for spring - fill yours up with the best family and kid board games for the rainy days ahead!

When I think of spring I think of two things: spring cleaning and spring showers. So right now seems like a great time to do some organizing and pull together a family game basket for rainy afternoons.

Said basket would also come in handy for Family Game Night – a tradition I’d love to get started around here now that the kids are getting old enough to enjoy the fun.

We already have a few favorite games of our own but I’m always on the lookout for more to keep all the kids interested as they get older.

Plus a quality family game would be a great idea for the Easter basket. I asked our Facebook followers about their family favorites and they came up with a rather extensive list.

Here’s what they came up with (along with our family’s personal favorites in bold):

HIGHLY ACCLAIMED

  • Qwirkle
  • Zingo
  • Ticket to Ride (great for elementary-aged kids)
  • Blokus (and Blokus Jr.)
  • Spot It

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  • Hedbanz
  • Eboo Preschool Lotto Game
  • Make ‘N’ Break – Family Game
  • Richard Scarry’s Busytown
  • Settlers of Catan

THE CLASSICS

  • Uno (and Uno Attack)
  • Memory (this version is gorgeous)

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  • Twister (great for getting the wiggles out!) and don’t miss The Wonder Forge Dr Seuss Super Stretchy ABCs
  • Battleship
  • Jenga

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  • Go Fish (we love this version based on colors – perfect for pre-readers)
  • Sorry
  • Monopoly
  • Let’s Go Fishin’
  • Connect Four
  • Don’t Break the Ice

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  • Apples to Apples (Family edition and also Disney edition – which my kids would love!)
  • Mouse Trap
  • Checkers (Jumbo version)
  • Yahtzee (and Jr. Toy Story version)
  • Candy Land
  • Life

ESPECIALLY FOR THE YOUNGER SET

  • Trouble (Toy Story version)
  • Hit the Throttle
  • Cat in the Hat I Can Do that!
  • Hoot Owl Hoot

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  • The Sneaky Snacky Squirrel Game
  • Snail Pace Race
  • Pass the Pigs (I remember this one from when I was little – so fun!)
  • Candyland
  • Chutes and Ladders
  • Super Why ABC Letter Preschool Game

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  • Hi-Ho Cheerio
  • Meet the Gruffalo Preschool Imagination Game

HONORABLE MENTIONS

  • Cranium Hullabaloo
  • Doodle Dice
  • Hiss
  • There’s a Moose in the House
  • Scrabble Alphabet Scoop
  • Sequence for Kids

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