Family games are a wonderful way to pass the time and spend quality time together as a family. Cold winter days are really made for family games, but it can be difficult to keep thinking of ways to make it interesting. Try out some of these suggestions to make these cold winter days a little bit more fun.
What Are The Benefits Of Family Games?
There’s a lot of benefits of playing family games together. It can improve communication and encourage better interaction in the family. It gives your children lasting memories of time spent together. It also helps your little ones develop critical thinking skills, cooperation, strategy and tactic skills, and helps them learn other ways of interacting.
Board Games
There are more board games on the market than there ever were before. You can get old classics, rebooted versions, junior versions, and independent board games that you might not have heard of before. Monopoly, Cluedo, Scrabble, and Articulate are just as good as they were when they were released. They also have junior versions for younger children. You can even find themed versions of some classic games based on your favourite TV shows, movies and books.
You may also want to look at family games that you haven’t heard of before, or relative newcomers to the board game market. Games like Ticket To Ride, Catan, Herd Mentality, and Cards Against Humanity Kids edition are all wonderful additions to your board game collection.
Word Games
Word games at home are exciting family games that don’t need you to buy anything. It’s a creative way to have fun with your family, and these games can help improve your children’s vocabulary.
Word Squares is a simple and easy but incredibly fun game to play together. Draw a grid for each play. These can be as large as you want, but they should all be the same size. Every player takes a turn and names a letter. The player writes the letter into one of the grids. When the grid is full, everyone tries to find as many words as possible. Each word is worth a point, and the player that has the most points is the winner.
Charades
Charades can need a little bit of pre-planning if you want to be extra organised. You can write down some TV shows, books, and movies onto paper. Cut each title out by itself and put it into a bowl. The acting player can select from the bowl, and then act out the title. You could have each acting player think of their own title or phrase. You could set a timer, or for smaller children leave the timer off.
Wordle
Wordle is a web-based game that involves guessing the word of the day in a certain amount of tries. You can easily play it together as a family too with some pens and paper, and a dictionary or book.
Movie Quotes Game
This game can be made as easy or as difficult as you want. All you need is some cards. Write down one movie quote per card. For smaller children, it might be best if you set a movie genre, so that all the quotes are from a Disney movie, or an animated movie. You can then divide everyone into two groups and give them half the cards each. The team then try to correctly name the movies that the quotes are from. The team with the most points wins. If you’re playing with adults, or teens, you could read the quotes out, and each person can try to write down the correct answers.
