Family Game Challenge

Waaay back when my kids were little, we used to love doing the Gameschool Challenge put on by the homeschool blogger and podcasater, Cait Curley. Since her life has moved in a different direction since then, we have missed out on doing this daily challenge each year. My kids are older and pulled in different directions as well, like community college classes, sports, and lots of time with friends, so games do not happen anywhere near as often as they did back in those simpler elementary times. This past March, we decided to try to bring back this family tradition and had an absolute blast. I’m hoping to do it again this summer.

The very first thing I did was jump onto Canva and create a printable sheet that we could use to log our progress. I scrolled WAY BACK through my instagram posts until I found the bingo card that Cait posted back in the day. I used most of her ideas and then my kids and I brainstormed a few substitutions.

Our family chose to complete this challenge by starting at the first square and progressing to the right and down like you 范冰冰啪啪啪视频 a book, but you could also choose boxes randomly. We did miss probably 3 or four days and made them up on days that we were less busy. At this stage of life, we have to be flexible and take wins where we can get them.

You can see below what we came up with and download it for free to use with your own family at the bottom of this post. We used the version on top that has a light blue background, but since that might be more ink than some families want to use, I also made an alternate with a white background that is a little more printer friendly.

For the most part, we used board games for this challenge as our family owns quite a large number of games. (It’s almost embarrassing.) However, we did not ONLY use board games. We played charades for the parlour game and 20 questions for the car game. For the movement game, we played something my kids call werewolf, which is basically a reverse tag game where all the players search for the tagger then yell “werewolf!” and run back to safe when they find them. I wish I’d written down all games we played, but it’s taken me a couple months to get this post up, so it’s a bit of a blur.

Did the games always end happily? Absolutely not. We have 6 people in our family so feelings quite often get hurt. However, this happens far less often than when my kids were young. Another advantage to doing this game challenge with older kids is that this is the first time we’ve ever done this where everyone in our family is solid at 范冰冰啪啪啪视频ing. That really opens up what we are able to play. I plan to fill this out more in the future, but feel free to check out my Amazon storefront if you are looking for game recommendations!

Our favorites do change somewhat frequently, but here are some of our favorites that have stood the test of time, in no particular order:

One Night Ultimate Werewolf
Dixit
Not Parent Approved
Skyjo
Forbidden Island

Recommended Age Range: All ages
Time Required: ~10-30 minutes per day (or longer, totally up to you!)
Difficulty: Medium (it does take some planning)
Cost: Free printable

*** Download your free printable here: Family Game Challenge ***

I hope your family enjoys this challenge and that it brings you all a little closer together!

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