I have a fun card game for you today that can get the whole family together and exercising. The card game is called Fit Deck Junior, and it would be a blast for family game night, or for a classroom.
It gives you the opportunity to do something together as a family, and get fit at the same time.

I think kids will have a blast with this. The bonus is it gets them up and moving, instead of sitting in front of a video game or the TV.
The game idea is simple, shuffle the deck, then start playing. When it’s your …read more

Fisher Price offers a different twist on a classic game with their boxed version of Go Fish.  The game is for 2-4 players.  Each player takes turns catching fish with the fishing rod that’s included with the game.  Using the suction cup on the end of the fishing rod, players try to catch cardboard fish.  The fish have numbers and colors on them.  Players try to catch matched pairs (by color or number) similar to the classic Go Fish card game. 
What I like most about this game are the various ways you can make up rules to match the age and understanding of …read more

Cranium’s Hullabaloo is an action-oriented game for kids ages 4 and up.  What I love most about this game is there is virtually no set up, and kids can play it with little or no supervision.  My 3-year old triplets love this game, and after I showed them how to use it the first time, they understood how to play and could play without my help.
The game is simple and includes a few variations.  The simplest game play mode involves spreading the colored game pads around the floor then flipping the switch and turning the game unit on.  Music plays …read more

Connect Four was one of my favorite games ever when I was younger. It was always the most popular game for indoor recess on rainy or snowy days. I think I liked it best because the kid I happened to have a crush on also liked the game. I remember getting in trouble one day because we were both singing, “Help Me Rhonda” at the top of our lungs while we played. Not very conducive to quiet indoor time. Ah well. It was worth it for the memory.

I love Clue. Growing up, I do think that this was my favorite board game, probably because we didn’t have it. I imagine for other people, who actually owned it, the great suspense and intrigue of the it probably wore off after the first dozen games or so. For me, though, every round of “whodunnit” was exciting, challenging, and fulfilling.
After we got married, Bald Man and I started building up our own collection of family games, and Clue was one of the first on my list. For some reason, though, we decided to get crazy …read more

One of Bald Man’s least favorite commercials depicts some type of fast retail environment (there are variations on the scene) where customers are quickly making their way through the checkout lane by making their purchases via a credit/debit card swipe. Everything is moving so smoothly until, oh my gosh how dare he, a customer actually brings a halt to it all by having the nerve to present the teller with…..wait for it…..CASH.
That’s all I could think of today when I saw the commercial for the latest rebirth of Monopoly…Monopoly Electronic Banking Edition. Yup, Monopoly without the …read more

I have a summer birthday and so had many outdoor parties as a kid. I loved the games that my mom would think up to play in the yard, and never laughed so hard as when I was watching my friends rolling eggs with their noses and such!
My daughter recently had her first Field Day with teachers and other students who belong to the same homeschooling program as we do. Some of the games brought back fun memories for me. I loved playing mushroom with the giant parachute! And others made me think that they’d work …read more

So, a friend spent a portion of this weekend participating in a blogathon to raise money for charity. At one point, she and another blogathoner (yes, I’m making up words, I think), started chatting about a game called Swingball. From what I gathered, it seemed similar to what I grew up with as Tetherball.
I remember Tetherball poles at one or two of the grade schools I attended, but I never remember it being a huge craze or anything. Certainly nothing like four-square. Baldman, however, remembered playing a few games in grade school. He says, “I …read more

I really thought we were going to miss the whole Pokémon craze. Our oldest is just now 6, and I guess I expected the excitement over the cards and game to have passed by now. Not that I have anything against them, I don’t know anything about them (yet), but it appears that I was mistaken….by a long shot!
Our daughter just received a set of cards from a friend who plays the game and had a bunch of doubles. Baldman was very excited, let me tell you. He loves games like this, and immediately searched the …read more

Strawberry Shortcake Dance Dance Revolution was one of the gifts my daughter received for her birthday. After watching her have a blast on the real Dance Dance Revolution for PS2 (when she could get us away from Guitar Hero), my sister thought this would be a fun gift for her niece.
We’ve…erm…I mean…..she’s had a blast playing with this game. The characters are cute, the songs are fun, and the moves start out nice and simple. The best part is that there are no gaming consoles required, it just plugs right into the TV. Other …read more