Friday, January 02, 2009

Family Game Paradise

I posted somewhat recently about how the Lone Star Baby has finally gotten old enough to play card games (with the help of Lone Star Pa's card-holding invention!) and board games and how it looked like we were going to be able to return to our fun pre-Lone Star Baby tradition of having family game nights. Now, we are in full family game night swing and it is really wonderful!

We have found, with the help of Veloute's recommendations, some really fun card games that bring the whole family together - Sleeping Queens and Frog Juice. While these games say they are for 8 and up, the Lone Star Baby is only four and a half and she is a whiz at Sleeping Queens and is really pretty competent at the more complicated and more recently learned, for us, Frog Juice. She is quite bright, but I think any typical five or six year old could play Sleeping Queens (and most bright four year olds) and I think your average six year old and bright younger kids could definitely learn Frog Juice. These games are fun for the kids but also really fun for teens and adults of all ages. My step mom loved Sleeping Queens when we played it on Christmas.

The Lone Star Baby also got Hungry, Hungry Hippos, Cootie Bug and Chutes And Ladders for Christmas. This house is a fun place to be!

4 comments:

Saints and Spinners said...

These are good games to know. We had a good time with the HABA made game called Marrakesh... which is being discontinued? Wah! Here's a link: http://www.maukilo.com/brands/haba-games-136/marrakesh-game-clearance-4767.html

Lone Star Ma said...

Thanks!

Andrea said...

I kind of missed out on the game years with M because the twins were born right when he turned 4 (but we did play a lot of Go Fish that summer...with the result he learned his numbers). The twins are just starting to get into games, and they've been having a lot of fun with Max, a cooperative game from Family Passtimes (which has won out over Candyland as their choice to play 9 times out of 10 since they got both for Christmas). I've also heard that if you saw a very narrow slit in a short board, small kids can use that as a card holder--have yet to get the husband to make us some, so we just play all cards face up on the floor...adds to the excitement.

Lone Star Ma said...

That was my husband's invention(: