Hello Ladies,
We are going to start having family game nights with our 6 year old daughter and I was wondering which games you Mamas enjoy playing with your children the same age. If you could explain what the games are about as to give me a general idea, that would be helpful.
Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!
Apples to Apples is a good game for all ages- you are able to make it as difficult or as easy as the age can stand. We play it often with my large family and I have nieces and nephews from 26 to 3 years old. Good luck!
uno,sorry, connect four
Hi there! My kids arent 6 yet but some games we play, and they can be played with a 6 year old is Hungry Hippo, Wack a Mole, Go Fish, Memory, and Elefun....I also play with my son on his VTech learning System. Have Fun :)
Jennifer
We play Dominos(mexican train/chicken scratch) and our 5 & 8yr. olds love it and now my 3 yr. old is in on it as well. It is where you have 15 dominos each and then you have to match the dots/colors basically until someone plays out-they love it and it's help the youngest with his colors and we have the older two counting and our oldest has to add up everyone's score when the game ends-they are all learning and we are all having fun. We also play a LOT of Memory, Connect 4 and Carebear Uno! HTH
"Win, Lose, or Draw" and "Disney Scene It"
Wii.
We love it as family and when daughter has friends over to play.
As a family, we love the sports package that comes with Wii, Mario Cart and Animal Crossing.
It makes for a lot of fun, competition and workout at our house!! After the boxing I am sore the next day!!
We play Disney Sorry, Chutes and Ladders, Candy Land, Connect Four and Uno. We also play Wii Sports with the kids(mainly bowling. We also enjoy putting puzzles together as a family. A new one that we are going to try is Twister. Have fun!
We do this! My middle just turned seven and he loves Sorry, Farkle, Go Fish, Yahtzee, Big Fish Little Fish, Rats!, Junior Monopoly, and Mouse Trap.
You will be so glad you started this tradition! I think it is great and we have so many shared laughs because of it.
VickiS
Uno, Apples to Apples Jr., Monopoly Jr., The Matching Game, Twister, the junior edition of Cranium---it has a different name and I can't think of it off the top of my head, Don't Eat Pete (not a board game), Hide and Seek, Old Maid, Pick up Sticks,etc.
Game nights are awesome!!!
What a good question. My husband and I love Scrabble, but that is too hard for a 6 year old. When I was 6, my favorites were Payday (board game)...Win, Lose, or Draw (the drawing game, and you can just get a big tablet from Office Depot or a kids easel)...we still love charades (but not sure how to spell it).
We like Password.
Cranium has a GREAT line of games for all ages and abilities. Games that use teamwork are really good for this age. I have a 4 children ranging from 20 to 5 years old and playing in teams helps the younger ones learn higher strategies and the older ones learn patience. Games with activities and not just board work keep their bodies as well as their minds busy and involved. Dragon Tales and Blues Clues have games like that, where the players move on the board as well as do activities. Thomas the Tank Engine has a math board game that has the players make trains as they go along. This is a fabulous time to look for new and unusual game that stores may not carry all yearlong. Check the out of the ordinary stores and not just Wal-Mart, etc. Good luck and have a great time!!
Two of our favorites are Apples to Apples and Whonu. They are a ton of fun!
We found a great game from Discovery Toys called Labirynth, it is a maze type board game that is easy to play and entertaining for all ages. Also, at that age both my dgts loved Connect Four and Battleship.
Have fun!
Cranium has some of the best games. My kids love Cranium Cadoo, which is a junior version of the adult cranium game. It has a variety of activities. You draw cards that ask you to act things out or draw them or make something out of playdoh. It is easy enough for a six year old, but entertaining enough for adults to do. If she is not reading yet, you may need to help read the cards. Also, they have several other games that are even easier for younger ones - I can't think of the names, but one is a carnival game and one is I think named Cariboo, a buried treasure game - this was one of my kid's favorite games and they could play it even at three years old.
We are a game night family, too. We love it!! We like the game of Life. I also recommend going to www.familyfun.com . At the top of the page will be a tab for games, click it, and then look for the tab for games by age, and click it. Then you can look for a specific game for your age group. I have found alot of neat games to play with my 8 year old that you can play using stuff around the house, for instance, one of our favorite games from that website is a game you play in your living room. You have all the players but one leave the living room and go to another area of the house, then the person that stayed in the living room changes things in the living room, by moving objects around, or removing items, and then everyone comes back to the living room and tries to figure out what has been changed. My daughter loves to do this, she asks to play this game all the time. Hope this helps, have fun and enjoy each other.
Caribou makes a great game my kids love...
Good luck
April J
This is a really good way to connect with family and to keep the open communication so needed in children today. Great Idea. Ginger W
We do Jokers but you can not buy it.
Zingo, Sorry, Uno are good.
We also play DIsney Scene It.