Getting Ready for Spring: Make a Family Game Basket

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

 

• 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)

 

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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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