Remember a few weeks ago when I posted “5 Ways Family Game Night Can Be Frugal Fun”? Well obviously Walmart & Hasbro agree! They have created Family Game Night Centers in the Walmart stores to help you put together your own Family Game Night for under $40.
Walmart offered the ElevenMoms the opportunity to create our very own theme night for $40 or less. Some ideas included:
Example 1: Rock n’Roll Night
Turn your living room into a 50’s diner for Rock n’ Roll Night. The family could play include Twister, watch one of the two High School Musical movies, pull out those old tunes and serve diner themed foods like milk shakes and classic hot dogs.
Example 2: Double Trouble Night
Turn family night into trouble fun by playing the infamous Trouble game and bending the rules such as eating with your fingers. Then relax around the TV to watch your favorite Pirates of the Caribbean movie and see how everyone’s favorite pirates get in and out of trouble
Example 3: Special Mission Night
This night is about solving puzzle and using your smarts to uncover a mystery. Create or solve puzzles, play Pictureka and consider adding in a movie like National Treasure. Secret receipts of creative snacks might also be revealed!
Example 4: Day of the Week Family Night Kit
For a Sweet Tooth Sunday. Walmart would provide the board game Candyland as well as the sugary sweet movie Pollyanna along soda and makings for a homemade ice cream sundaes.
What did we decide on in the Frugal Upstate household? Well, I went themeless. Buddy loves reading “I Spy” books, so we decided to try out the new game “Pictureka“. It may not be the cheapest game out there, but it is good for the whole family, and we will use it again and again! For dinner we had frozen pizza (a cooking free night for mom is always a treat), the kiddos all picked out their favorite kind of chips (I introduced them to Funions) which I allowed them the liberty to eat on the sofa (I NEVER allow food in the den), and then we watched “Race to Witch Mountain“. It was a fantastic fun family Friday!
Walmart & Hasbro want you to have a chance to host your own Family Game Night, so they are giving me a $40 Walmart gift card to give to one lucky reader!
This is a super quick giveaway, a mere 24 hours, so you must enter between now and 8pm on Saturday September 25th 2009.
How do you enter? Easy Peasy!
Leave a comment telling me your favorite game/activity for the family to do together.
For an extra entry you can tweet about the contest.
Good luck!
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My daughter likes to play memory games, like her Rainbow Fish matching game. My husband and I like to have a couple of friends over once a month and play Cranium – seriously I laugh so hard when we play that game!
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Favorite family activity – making cookies (then eating them)
Sorry and Uno are the best to play.
My daughter is 2 1/2 – we love to look at her I spy book and find matches, and she has a little kangaroo game called can do roo that we love to play together, too, thanks!
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Our favorite family activity is to go camping. In fact we just went last week for the first fall family camping trip. It was part of my Big 4-0 birthday surprise. We all had such a great time and the weather was fantastic. It was nice not sweating while we were camping as usually we go in the summer. We actually had to have the heater on at night! It was a blast and I hope to do it again.
We love monopoly.
We like apples to apples.
We love PICTIONARY! Love it, love it, love it!
We love swimming, but are on the lookout for a good winter activity. I hear Apples to Apples is good.
I love Monopoly night. The only time when I can buy and sell, and worry about taxes!
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We love all sorts of games in our family but one of our favorites is Taboo. We have slight variations of the game; it’s fun to get those brain cells working without saying the word, or any part of it.
we like to play scrabble
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Me and my family love the game who knew and apples to apples