5 more sleeps until Christmas! I can't believe we're less than a week away from the big day. Do you know what I love most about the holiday? After feeling rushed all month long, we can just sit back and relax and spend the entire day as a family. After the gifts have been opened and dinner has been served, we gather around the table and bust out our favorite card and board games, then spend the rest of the evening broiled in a little friendly gaming competition. We bust out the cookies, pour some sparkling cider, then get our game on. It's a tradition that I look forward to every year.
Some of my favorite games are the long standing classics: UNO, Sorry, Apples to Apples and Life, just to name a few. I like the kind of games that the whole family can play together because that's what the holidays are about for me. Being together as a family. We did our annual waffle breakfast for the extended family last Sunday, and after our bellies were full, we pulled out the games and had a hooting good time together.
We have a few preschoolers in my family, and it made my heart happy to see the tweens and teens giggling with them over a few games of Hungry Hungry Hippos, and teaching them counting skills and colors with Candy Land.
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What's your favorite family holiday tradition?
Hahah look at poor Jason sent to kitchen to slave for the gamblers :)))
ReplyDeleteCandy Land looks like super fun!
Hope you and the family will have marvellous holidays and birthdays, dear, this year!
Pft, he was digging into the leftover food :P
DeleteCandy Land is for toddlers and little kids, but Allison still enjoys playing it.
Hope you have a lovely Christmas!
Candy Land and Life and Hungry Hungry Hippos I've given a go many a time. Monopoly I enjoy, but the friggin thing goes on forever. Card games we go for here most times.
ReplyDeleteMonopoly does seem like the longest game ever. If you haven't done Apples to Apples yet, that's a favorite of ours here.
DeleteI loved the hippos when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteMe too!
DeleteI like the Christmas Fun in 5 Instructions where you make ornaments out of only items in your home. My kids love artistic crafts and they would like this very much.
ReplyDeleteMaking ornaments out of items you find in your home. My kids love being creative and making things.
ReplyDeleteI like making ornaments for the house and tree. My kids compete to make the coolest one. It is fun
ReplyDeleteI love going Christmas Caroling with my family throughout the neighborhood! So fun!
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I like the create a Christmas Ornament, I think that would be fun to see how creative and original people can be
ReplyDeleteI like the activity where you make Christmas ornaments.
ReplyDeleteI think the ornament making activity is a good way to keep kids busy and get them excited for Christmas
ReplyDeleteI think it's fun to make ornaments. I'm making little God's Eyes - ornaments. I need to finish them.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is Create an Ornament. I was the volunteer in my daughter's kindergarten class Christmas party this year and I made ornament kits for them to make with polaroid photos of them to take home. A few of the parents actually got weepy! It's something to preserve the moment forever. I intend on putting my daughter's on the tree every year to remember that time we spent together.
ReplyDeleteChristmas carols with no words! I particularly like that you can use things in the kitchen to make noise!
ReplyDeleteI like the making ornaments from what you can find around the house only. My kids love to create weird and interesting things.
ReplyDeleteI think the Crazy Caroling would be fun. I have some goofballs in my house who do great at that one. Do you know my son has never played Simon? I am definitely slacking for not introducing it to him sooner!
ReplyDeleteWe have not been caroling in years. I actually miss it but had not given thought to it in a long time. I guess because of where we live and noone does it, we got away from it.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite activity would be to creat a christmas ornament. It would be fun to do with my granddaughter
ReplyDeleteI think it would be fun to do the activity Jingle Belly laughs.
ReplyDeleteMaking Christmas ornaments is my favorite on the list! This looks like so much fun!
ReplyDeleteThe Jingle Belly Laughs sounds like fun!
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§ The level finds Cookie Crossing event. It forms of candy order degree.
§ You have to amass 79 yellowish candies.
§ You must finish your level within 30 moves.
§ The level has only two blockers. They're marmalade and 10-move bomb.
§ It's six colours regular candy. The candies colors are orange, red, yellow, green, blue and purple.
§ None of colours candies are overlooking in the plank.
§ Some of characteristics you can see in the degree. The features are colour bomb, lucky candy and mystery candy.
§ There are just 49 spaces.
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