• Collect ten empty plastic water bottles and fill them part way with water for stability.

• Arrange them the way bowling pins are usually set up.

• Use a medium sized ball for knocking the pins down.

• Set a starting line and have kids take turns attempting to knock all the pins down.

• The easiest way to keep score is to give out one point for each pin knocked down.

• Give a reward to the winner with the most points

To begin playing, draw a grid of two horizontal lines dissecting two vertical lines. Players take turns choosing a box and placing either the letter 0 or the letter X to mark their box. The goal of the game is to fill in three marks in a row or block your opponent from doing so.

Our favorite!! The first player thinks of a word or phrase and writes a blank for every letter below a drawing of a gallows with an empty rope. The second player attempts to spell the word by guessing letters. Each wrong guess gives the guessing player a body part added to the swinging rope – a head, torso, two arms, and two legs. If the hangman is completed before guesses provide the correct word or phrase, the player who chose the word wins.

A pencil and paper game for two players, Dots and Boxes begins with an empty grid of dots. Players take turns adding a single horizontal or vertical line between two un-joined adjacent dots. The player who completes the fourth side of a box earns one point and gets another turn. Players write their initials in the boxes to indicate who completed each. The drawn “board” can be of any size. Dots and Boxes ends when there are not more lines that can be placed. The winner is the player with the most boxes completed. Enjoy!

Do you or your parents have a deck of cards laying around the house? There are so many games you can play. These are some games that w played together and are some of my favorites!

• War

• Go Fish

• Crazy Eights

• Memory

• Twenty-One

• Solitaire

Normally this game is played in the car. You start from “A” and say things that you see while driving or find each letter on signs and license plates as you pass. You can switch it up and play using different themes such as animals, household items, food, drinks or movies. What ever you want. You make he rules.

This game consists of stacking 36 cups in a pyramid and then back down into a single stack.

Each person places a cookie on their forehead and have to get it into their mouth without touching it with their hands.

In this game, you have to transfer Smarties or similar candy from one plate to another using only a straw.