How long has it been since your family played backyard or board games? It’s been far too long since I organised a fun day of games for the kids. Now that school holidays are here, my children are bugging asking me to organise play dates with their cousins. And what is better to do with cousins than boy verses girl rivalry games?
Note: Disney Tangled Family Movie Ticket Giveaway details are at the end of the post.
I’ve detailed the four games the kids played below. They are easy to prepare and fun to play.
Cotton Wool Race
Materials: Cotton wool balls, straws
How to play: Position two children at one end of a table. Give each child a cotton wool ball and a straw. The object of the game is for the children to blow the cotton wool ball to the end of the table using the straw. The cotton ball that reaches the end of the table first wins! If the cotton wool ball falls off the side of the table, the player must pick the ball off the ground and start at the beginning.
Age: 2+
Who won: Girls
Balloon High
Materials: Balloons
How to play: The object of the game is to keep the balloon off the ground. No holding. If the balloon hits the ground, that person is out.
Age: 4+
Who won: Boys
Trampoline Poison ball
Materials: Soft ball, trampoline (or play it on the ground)
How to play: Divide children into two teams. The object of the game is for the team on the outside of the circle to roll the ball and hit the feet of the children on the inside of the circle.
Age: 5+
Who won: Boys
Clip Art Snap/Memory Game
Materials: Make your own clip art cards or print my template here: Clip Art Snap/Memory Game. Use thick paper so the image does not transfer through the paper.
How to play
Memory: Shuffle the cards and lay them down in neat rows. A player turns over any two cards to see if they match. If they match, the player keeps the cards and turns over two more cards. This play continues until the two cards don’t match. If they do not match, the player turns the cards face down again in the same location and the next player takes their turn. The winner is the one who has the most cards at the end of the game.
Snap: Place the cards face down in a pile. Create a new pile by turning over one card the right way up. Taking turns, each player draws a card from the turned-down pile and places it on the other pile. If the card is matching, the player who says “snap” first wins the cards in that pile. The winner is the one with the most cards at the end.
Age: 3+
Who won: Girls
Boy vs Girls
Who won? It was two apiece. The boys dominated the outside games and the girls ruled the concentration games. Interesting. Most of all, the children had an absolute ball!
Tangled
Want to see a classic boy verses girl movie? This is it.
Walt Disney Pictures presents Tangled, an action-packed, swashbuckling, animated musical comedy about the girl behind 70 feet of magical, golden hair. A princess stolen from her parents’ castle as a baby, Rapunzel (voice of MANDY MOORE) is locked in a hidden tower longing for adventure. Now an imaginative and determined teenager, she takes off on a hilarious, hair-raising escapade with the help of a dashing bandit (voice of ZACHARY LEVI). With the secret of her royal heritage hanging in the balance and her captor in pursuit, Rapunzel and her cohort find adventure, heart, humour, and hair… lots of hair. With original music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Glenn Slater, this comedic re-imagining of the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale comes to theatres in Disney Digital 3D™.
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Tangled Release date: 6 January 2011
Giveaway
I’m excited to be able to give away two family passes (x4 tickets) to see Tangled. For your chance to win, write a comment in the space below about a favourite team game your family likes to play.
Competition open to Australian residents only and will run from Tuesday December 21 to Sunday 9th January 2011.
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The summer holidays are here! It’s the perfect time to play family backyard and board games or see a family movie together.
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