When the Family Comes Home to Play
Ahhh … the holidays, full of love, good cheer, and LOTS of family. You could just sit around the fire and chat, but if you have little ones — even teens — chances are someone will get bored. Not to mention losing out on a great opportunity for everyone from the youngest to the oldest to get in some fun time! So here are some family party games to play to spice things up a bit.
Hide the Pumpkin (or turkey, or Santa)
A fun twist on the old staple of “Hot and Cold” – assign a decorative pumpkin (or turkey/Santa) as “it”. Someone hides it in the house… then, as the group looks for it, the person who is “it” says “Whooooo” in a soft spooky voice if you’re far away, and a loud “Whooooo” if you’re nearby – getting louder and louder the closer someone get to it. Whoever finds it gets to hide the pumpkin next. For thanksgiving, “gobble” like a turkey, and for Christmas, “HOHOHO” like Santa!
Nuts in a Basket
Assorted nuts are a holiday tradition. In this game, everyone sits in a circle. They each choose a “nutty” name, such as “hazelnut”, “peanut” or “almond”… then someone stands in the middle of the circle and starts the game. Whoever is “it” calls out two nuts at the same time – the two nuts have to switch seats without letting the person in the middle steal their chair. If they have their chair stolen, they’re “it” – or if the person in the middle failed to steal a chair, then he/she is “it” again. To create mass mayhem, the person in the middle can yell out “Nuts in a Basket!” – which means EVERYONE must get up from their chair and find another chair to be in. Lots of fun! You can change this up for “Fruit in a Basket” or “Candies in a Bowl”… whatever you enjoy the most.
For Thanksgiving Dinner I had …
This is an oldie but goodie … and can be changed for Christmas. Quite a simple memory game, the family sits in a circle and someone starts out “For Thanksgiving dinner I had ________”, naming a food. The next person has to start out “For Thanksgiving dinner I had _____ and ______”, repeating the food they just heard, and naming a new one. As you can imagine, the bigger the group, the harder it gets… especially if you go around more than once! Sure to get lots of giggles, and the best part is, you got to get off your feet for a while!
Make a Family Capsule
Same thing as time capsules, only centered around your family! Have them write a Christmas card to themselves in the future. Take a family picture of everyone there – or include a Christmas portrait that you had made. Put in some things that have significance of that particular year… and then close it up, and write a chosen year on it to be opened in the future. You decide – are you going to open it in a year? Five years? Ten? Enjoy!
Gifts for Christ
Something a little more Christ centered is gifts for Christ. Make a little box out of cardboard and fancied it up with some colored glue and jeweled buttons. Every Christmas Day, open the box and read what “gifts” everyone gave to give Christ the past year, and then put in the box new gifts you want to give the Savior the following year. These gifts are things that you want to give the Savior – things like “Being kind to my sister” or “No yelling in the home” or “Read my scriptures everyday” – whatever it is that you want to better your life so that you can better the lives of others, thus “As I have loved you, love one another”.
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Chomping Skulls
We received a model skull in the mail yesterday. While I was busy reading some email, Hunter decided that the skull needed a good brushing of his teeth. He came out of the bathroom yelping. What was the problem, you ask?
It seems that the skull was mad about getting his teeth brushed and bit Hunter’s fingers! 
The skull has a spring loaded jaw – so I can clearly see where it might have bit him. The whole episode was just too comical.
The “F” Bomb
Sometimes I feel as if I just can’t get it all done. I don’t even come close most days. Every night, I make out a formidable list of accomplishments for the next day. These are all things that absolutely MUST get done – without fail. And then it happens …
The “F” word.
Failed.
I hate that letter in the alphabet. Let’s just scrap it and replace all words that begin with the letter “F” with some other letter – say, “T!”
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