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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For the last several years my family has had “Cookie Fridays”. Each Friday after dinner and chores we head to the kitchen and bake a new cookie recipe. We play games while the cookies bake, and then sit around the kitchen table with our glasses of milk and eat as many cookies as we can (it’s good to not have limits at least one day a week, right?)
Cookie Friday takes all of 40 minutes to be over and done with, but my kids look forward to it every week, in fact most of our dinner conversation include a hearty debate about what new recipe we will try the next Cookie Friday.
We’re a movie family. We have a huge carnival-style popcorn maker, crank that up and pop in a dvd or call up the Netflix queue.
I love to play rivers, roads, and rails . . . but the rest of the family loves Risk!
We’re a Scrabble family. Love it. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
We love Monopoly Here and Now.
We love to play cards. “21” is classic. Bananagrams is fun but is really challenging!
I would have to say going to the park as a family- nothing like it!
Tweet- http://twitter.com/joannagiveaway/status/4385665003
We bought a new Hasbro card game for last week’s first National Family Game Night and we have been playing it nonstop ever since. Dozens and dozens of rounds a day. It’s called CRAZY OLD FISH WAR. Here is the link; http://tinyurl.com/ya5v7zo
I tweeted; http://twitter.com/HSlater351/status/4385708112
Our favorite game is Pictureka and we love playing games together, but I would have to say our favorite activity is going for walks together. It is a time to enjoy nature and the outdoors while also enjoying each other’s company!
We like to play Eucker.
We love to play Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit! Both are so much fun!!!
We dance and play games.
Board games and card games never get old. I love beating my know-it-all husband at Trivial Pursuit! Kids love the old card game “Pit” since it’s so fast-paced.
My favorite family activity has always been camping. When we were kids, even when we couldn’t go away on a trip we would pitch the tent in the backyard and have hotdogs and hamburgers.
Once the tent was zipped up, we could be a million miles away in our imaginations.
We love to go play tennis.
My husband and I fell in love over Yahtzee when we were dating. 🙂 It remains a favorite for us.
We have a three year old and our current favorite family game is an exciting round of Hungry, Hungry Hippos. I forgot how fun that game was!
We love to go on nature hikes together.
Jenn,
Our family loves all sorts of games. We love playing WII family type games(sports,hasbro game,etc)We love playing Trouble and watching the five year old win. My personal favorite is when we have friends to dinner and we play Red Rover outside. We all live busy lives. When I get done with work and school I really try to enjoy my kids as much as possible.
We have an entire bucket full of board games – from scrabble to monopoly – but the one we always go back to is SORRY! We love that game!
We like Sorry! and UNO. Those are our two go-to board games. We use Uno jr to play with the 4 year old. All three kids started playing jr and have moved up to our version of cutthroat Uno by the time they are 5. Sorry gets pretty cutthroat too. We sometimes do Scattergories with an adult group, very difficult for the younger set.
My husband and I love Ticket to Ride. With the toddler we enjoy our Marble Tower Game. With the 7-year old it’s Blockus or various card games. We’re always eager to add new games!
I like monopoly, life and scrabble..am excited to try scrabble slam.
Karina picked my favorite already! We love Ticket to Ride, but I don’t want to be a copycat, so I’ll answer The Trail at House on Haunted Hill. Awesome game.
Tweeted: http://twitter.com/Getalonghome/statuses/4393055657
We love to play Uno and cards.
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We love to play Sorry and Trouble.
Our family loves to play all kinds of games. We especially love Skip-bo and PokerKeeno. Our church even does game nights once a month on a Friday night for families.
I tweeted about the giveaway:
http://twitter.com/familymgrkendra/status/4393330147
My husband and I, along with the 2 older kids really like Scrabble. When the youngest wants to play along, we pull out CandyLand as well! And no game night is complete without some good snacks like popcorn and apples with caramel!
We love love love to play cards in my house. Poker, paging one [[it’s like Crazy Eights]], any game, you’ll find it here. On nights like Thanksgiving, we need TWO tables. If not, there won’t be enough cards in the deck to play with!
Thanks for the giveaway =]
We find that games are terrific frugal entertainment. We play Scrabble and Boggle most often. We’re looking forward to trying Sequence. We received it recently as a gift from friends who enjoy it very much. We like air-popped popcorn for a snack with games. I’m thinking of making “kale chips” for a more innovative and nutritious snack.
We’re big on Go Fish and Candyland around here!!
Our favorite games to play as a family are Scrabble and Cadoo! My 9-year-old son usually beats me at Scrabble!
Please enter me in the contest. Thanks.
I love the idea of game night. My favorite game is Monopoly. Though any old standard – candystand, cards, dominoes, trouble are great choices for some of the game nights. Anything that provides the background for the family being together without dominating the event by focusing everyone on mechanics of play rather than relaxed enjoyment. Try comparing the way the family interaction goes during a new game compared to an old familiar one.
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We love playing Scrabble.
The kids and I like playing Bingo.
We love Yahtzee and Uno.
http://twitter.com/tuliplvr/status/4394315611
I am a Scrabble fiend, alas most folks won’t play with me a second time, lol! My husband and I together enjoy Monopoly and Settlers of Catan.
We love Guess Who. It just never gets old!
Tweet: http://twitter.com/coriwestphal/statuses/4394494017
I love camping out in a tent in the living room and enjoying a movie and popcorn.
We play Monopoly more than anything, but I think it’s time to pick up a few more games. We always have a great time, and anyone who stops by has to play too.
We have little ones in our family (3 and 1 1/2) so our favorite game is “Candy Land.” But we also love to play “Hide and Seek.”