Lego Party: Pin the Head on Lego Man!

This post has been months in the coming, but I couldn’t NOT include this fun classic game in our Lego party theme…Pin the Head on LEGO Man! This was a very popular activity at my 5 year old’s birthday party and the kids got quite involved…

Easter Egg Memory

If you have those plastic Easter Eggs lying around still, use them to play Memory with your little ones.

 Just pull the eggs apart and hide things underneath each half with a match under another half. I hid pennies, paper clips, popcorn kernels, buttons, etc.

My 4 year old loved playing this game and got quite intense :).
I got this idea from the April 2013 edition of Family Fun Magazine (page 20).



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Silly Pumpkin Game

It’s finally October! Halloween decorations are out and my boys are anxiously awaiting Halloween. I love this time of year…fall, holidays, etc.

Last week we kept ourselves entertained one afternoon with a silly pumpkin game and here was the result:

Frugal Summer Fun

Since my husband’s in school, we are always looking for fun things to do without spending tons of money…especially in the summer! It’s too hot for parks everyday!

I taught a class at church on frugal summer fun and thought I would share what I have found here as well. I have a few posts lined up with different ideas for summer fun, hopefully for all ages.

For today, here’s what we like to do in our air conditioned apartment:

• Play board games…you could even make your own with cardboard and colored paper
• Do puzzles…my husband and I just finished one and there’s something about sitting side by side, working on something together even if you’re not talking much. The hard part is keeping young kids from destroying it!
• Read books
• Read a book or series such as Harry Potter as a family
• Make a movie together. Dress up and remake well known movies or make up your own.
• In high school, we remade Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, and Star Wars among others and it was a blast!
• Build a tent or fort inside
• Or if your living room is big enough, set up a tent and camp out in your living room (or back yard)
• Make a miniature golf course using everyday objects
• Make a scavenger hut or treasure map
• Have older kids write and hide clues…you could even bury your treasure!
• Have a movie night with popcorn
• Invite other families over for a game night
• Have a marshmallow war with mini marshmallows and straws

I’ll be back Friday with more ideas for entertainment at home! If you think of other fun things, please share in the comments and I will add them to later posts so everyone can see them!

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Who Decides the Age Limit Anyway?

Every game you buy has an age limit printed on it, which I know applies to how cognitively developed you need to be to be able to grasp the rules and purpose of the game but there are so many games that can be used with little kids to add a bit of variety and challenge to their/our everyday lives:

• "Boggle": shake it up and see what letters your child can find. K started out only being able to identify one or two letters, but now knows almost the whole alphabet and begs me to play the "Letters Game"


• "Monkeys in a Barrel": we just recently discovered how fun this is for a 2.5 year old! K will use one to pick up the others one-by-one, or have me hold the monkey chain while he adds more to it. It's fun watching his mind work as he finds places to hold his chain such as cabinet doors, and as he works on coordination. C is content to just chew on the few monkeys we send his way.


• "Jenga": we build towers all the time.


• Good old fashioned cards. My husband and I play "Egyptian Rat Screw" and K walked in on one of our games. He now loves to sit and take turns flipping over cards into a pile. I can see the fine motor skills developing as he tries to flip over one card at a time.

All of these, and so many more games can be adapted based on age, cognitive development and temperament. The best part is, you probably have several games in your closet that can be used for an afternoon of fun with little ones.