Designing a family game night for all ages can be a real trick. The interests and abilities of a 4 year old, for instance, are way different from that of an 8 year old or a teen. Since this is a FAMILY game night, we want everyone to participate and have a good time.
Encourage players to let all team members participate–little ones can get left in the dust when highly competitive older siblings want to win bad enough.
- Two identical puzzles (24 pieces)*
- Questions or Tasks written out on slips of paper
- Plastic fillable eggs*
PUZZLES: Have a table ready where the puzzles will be put together. Keep the box close by so that players can see what the puzzle will look like. *You can find great, inexpensive puzzles and plastic eggs at Dollar Tree!
TEAMS: Set up teams. Teams should be a mixture of age groups.
QUESTIONS: Each egg will hold a trivia question to be answered, or a task to be done. Mark them for the age of the person to answer it. (Young Child – Child – Teen or -Adult) The host/hostess moderator has the answers to all of the questions.
RULES: Everyone hunts for eggs as a team. When they get an egg, bring it to the host/hostess who reads the question aloud. A team member answers the question. When a question is answered correctly, the team earns a puzzle piece for their puzzle. Once all of the clues have been found and the puzzle pieces awarded, the team puts their puzzle together. Whoever’s puzzle is completed first wins!
- Jump up and down three times and touch your nose. (for youngest child)
- ________________ was the first president of the United States (older child)
- In order to get a driving permit to learn to drive you must be _______ years
old. (for a teen) - The financial term GNP stands for ______ _______ ______. (adult)
Photo credits:
- Puzzle by Wrobel on Stock Xchng
- Puzzle Master by Jaaron on Flickr Creative Commons
- Plastic Eggs by dhester on Stock Xchng
Diane Roark says
Sinea,
You know I love your games and ideas. This game sounds like a lot of fun.
Have a great weekend Kelly and Sinea!
Blessings,
Diane Roark
Sinea says
Thanks Diane. Anything that gets the family together with chuckles and smiles is A OK with me!
Lauren Drobnjak says
SO MUCH FUN! Thanks again for sharing at Movement Monday. We will have to give this a go at our next family game night!
Sinea says
Hope you have lots of fun!
Glenna @ My Paper Craze says
This looks like such a fun game for the family. Thanks for a great idea!
Sinea says
So glad you like it!
Sinea says
This was so much fun to write, Kelli!
Thanks so much for inviting me to guest post for you. ♥