Family Game Night Game Recommendations for Families with Preschool, Elementary, Tween and Teen Kiddos!
Just updated for Christmas! Updated 12/15/20
You know what is fun? Family Game Night. Seriously, if you haven’t tried it – really now is the time. You can even do it with the cousins, grandparents or friends via zoom to really change things up!
We got this great list of in stock toys from Sherry Phipps the owner of School Crossing – Williamsburg’s local toy store. They are games by kid’s ages! Now what could be easier for your Christmas shopping?
I will tell you what could be easier…Sherry has all of these games in stock for you at School Crossing (an awesome chance to support LOCAL) – we have put all the links to their website below so you can buy online and either have it shipped to you or you can chose to have in store pick up! You can also call her at (757) 220-8772 or message their FB page to place your order and then schedule for curbside pick up or have delivered today – easy peasy!
Without further ado, here is the list of games sure to please the kids and adults in the family! Included are the all the important details – minimum recommended age, number of players, cost (at School Crossing) and rules in a nutshell! Keep scrolling till you find your children’s age group. Preschool, Elementary, Tween and Teen+
Games for Preschool Aged Children:
Smoosh and Seek Treehouse
Great for ages 3+
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Rules in a Nutshell: This memory game has a satisfying twist – or should we say smoosh! In Smoosh and Seek Treehouse, kids work together to remember where each of the hide and seek players are by squishing the tokens into Smoosh Dough! Can they find all the woodland animals before Mr. Prickles climbs up the ladder? This cooperative game has all players working together to win!
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Duck-A-Roo
Great for ages 3+
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Rules in a Nutshell: Everything is ducky when Mama Duck has her ducklings in a row. But when players flip over a duck pond token that matches the last duckling in line, they call out “Duck-a-roo!” and swim it to the front. If they don’t make a match they flip it back over. Play continues until there’s one token left, and Mama swims back to the front of the line. Players count up their tokens to see who wins in this educational game of memory and color matching.
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Game: Sneaky Snacky Squirrel
Great for Ages 3+
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Rules in a nutshell: Your forest friends are hungry and need your help. Spin the spinner, grab the matching colored acorn with your squirrel squeezer and stash it in your log. Get it now
Bandit’s Memory Mix Up
Great for Ages 3+
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Rules in a nutshell: Bandit is a sneaky raccoon who likes to take things from the garden. You and your family have to figure out what is missing. https://school-crossing.com/buy/192073782171/bandits-memory-mix-up-game
Count Your Chickens
Great for Ages 3+
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Rules in a nutshell: A cooperative game that teaches counting. The baby chicks have flown the coop and need help getting home. Move mother hen from the start line to the picture the spinner indicates. As she moves, count the spaces, then put that many chicks into the coop. Try to get all 40 chicks home before mother hen gets there and everybody wins, but be sure to watch out for the fox!
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Games for Family Game Night with Elementary Age Kids:
Spot It!
Great for Ages 4+
Number of Players: 2-6
Rules in a Nutshell: Test your observational skills and hone your reflexes with the award-winning gameplay of Spot It!, a game of lightning-fast choices for a group of two to eight players. With dozens of awards and possible versions married to elegant gameplay, Spot It! has become a global phenomenon. The game functions on a simple mechanic – fifty-five circular cards, each of which features a number of symbols and has exactly one of those symbols in common with every other card in the deck. With five distinct mini-games, you can be sure that Spot It! will be different every time you play, and because it’s always your turn, there’s never any downtime!
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Fish Stix
Great forAges 6+
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Rules in a Nutshell: Match fish, score points! Fish Stix is a simple visual strategy game that’s fun for children of different ages to play together. Game includes 72 fish sticks, 4 scoreboards, 24 fish tokens, instructions. Ages 6-12. 2-4 players.
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Froggit
Great forAges 6+
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Rules in a Nutshell: SmartGames Froggit: can you get your frog family across the pond first? But watch out for the fish… which can send you right back to the start! A family game that helps build planning and visual perception shills.
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Go Go Gelato
Great forAges 6+
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Rules in a Nutshell: The Yummy Logic Race! Using 4 scoops, 3 cones, 2 hands, and 1 challenge card, fill your customers’ orders as quickly as you can! Pass the scoops from cone to cone, without touching or dropping them, to get the order exactly as it appears on the card. Work quickly to figure out the best way to satisfy your customer before your opponents do. The fastest and most successful gelato mixer will be the winner!
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Slam Cup
Great for Ages 6+
Cost: $17.99
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Rules in a nutshell: Your goal: Quickly match the color of the inside of one of your cups to the color on the outside of the one on the stack. Harder to do than you think!
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Flying Kiwis
Great for Ages 6+
Cost: $18.99
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Rules in a nutshell: Aim and launch to soar and score! This game is like angry birds meets tic-tac-toe.
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Games for Family Game Night with Preteens:
Drone Home
Great for Ages 8+
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Rules in a nutshell: .Race to launch your aliens down the ramps and land inside the drone! Watch out—there’s a delay once you make it in, so others can knock you out! If you stay in and your alien escapes when the drone lifts off, you’re one step closer to winning! Get rid of all your aliens first to win! It’s fast-paced fun for the whole family, and it’s the first game to include a real, flying drone! Requires batteries, not included. (4 AAA batteries required-not included)
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Weight for It
Great for Ages 8+
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Rules in a nutshell: .A head-spinning mix of strategy and physics! Players take turns placing the weights onto the wheel to try and make it rotate so the correct arrow is aligned with the number on their card. Line it up just right and you get to keep the card as a point. Get it wrong and you have to wait to try again on your next turn. Can you handle the suspense as the wheel swings back and forth past your number? The first to earn three cards wins the game! Logic and reasoning are sure to twist and turn into knots of thrilling confusion with the fascinating game of Weight For It. Grab it now!
Insandity
Great for Ages 8+
Number of Players: 2 players
Rules in a nutshell: Flip fast to run out the clock! Each sand timer is filled with a different amount of sand. Set the clocks to however long you want the game to last and then start the game by pressing your time button and flipping all the sand timers over. Using one hand, you’ve got to keep the sand flowing by flipping and moving the timers to an empty space one at a time. Stay focused and move fast… The instant a timer runs out, your opponent gets to hit their button to stop your time and start theirs before jumping right into the sand-flippin’ action. Whoever can run out their clock first wins the game! (3 AAA batteries required-not included) Grab it now!
Not It!
Great for Ages 6+
Number of Players: 3-6 players
Rules in a nutshell: In Not It! you join the fun in a magical land as Knights, Princesses, Unicorns, Wizards, Dragons, and Ogres play together in the castle yard. When the King rolls the 3 dice out of the castle door you must find a card in your hand that does not match any of the dice and then shout “Not it!” Spot the card that does NOT match, do it fast, and don’t be last! If you get rid of all of your cards first you win! Grab it here!
Even Steven’s Odd
Great for Ages 8+
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Rules in a nutshell: Read the challenge, toss the dice, and race to roll the answer first in this quick thinking add ‘em up challenge.
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Slapzi
Great for Ages 8+
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Rules in a nutshell: SLAPZI is the fast-matching card-slapping everyone-laughing picture game that is all about speed! Be the first player to slap the right picture cards on top of the right clue cards. The more people you have playing, the crazier it gets and the more laughs you’ll have.
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Games for Family Game Night with Teens:
Heist
Great for Ages 7+
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Rules in a nutshell: Heist, Crack the Safe to Get the Gold, The Fast Paced Electronic Cooperative Team Challenge Game. Complete the mission: Congratulations, you have opened the safe and won $50 million. 5 progressive game levels: beat all of the levels to become the Heist Champ. Grab it here
Chunky Monkey Business
Great for Ages 10+
Number of Players: 3-8 players
Rules in a nutshell: Chunky Monkey Business™ is the fast-paced, fill-in-the-blank party game where players match wits to figure out the Monkey in the Middle riddle. Think you know it? Grab the Chunky Monkey and shout out your guess! There’s only one right answer…but many hilarious wrong ones! So get ready to go wild and get funky with the Chunky Monkey at your next game night! Grab it here!
Kids Against Maturity
Great for Ages 8+
Number of Players: 4+ players
Rules in a nutshell:
Are your kids bored with Apples to Apples and too young for Cards Against Humanity?
Kids Against Maturity fills that empty gap with age-appropriate toilet humor for the whole family to enjoy. Poopy fart humor for the kids with layered innuendos for the adults. The best game for both worlds, Kids Against Maturity brings the family together for a massively fun game that will have kids and adults alike rolling with laughter. Are you ready to make family game night great again? A family fun party game where being the worst is the best. Grab it here
Whozit?
Great for Ages 10+
Number of Players: 2+ players
Rules in a nutshell: 6 unusual subjects. 2 debatable clues. 1 hilarious party game. Grab it here
Itzi
Great for Ages 8-98
Number of Players: 2-8 players
Rules in a nutshell: Be the first to answer the Itzi cards using your letter cards. Lots of ways to play, with fun colorful twists. From the makers of Tenzi. Grab it here!
School Crossing is located at 4640 Monticello Ave Ste 11C Williamsburg, Virginia 23188 – You can call (757) 220-8772 or message their FB page to get one or more of the above games. Happy Family Game NIGHT!
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