Mexican Train Dominos, Blokus, Apples to Apples: Fun Family Games
Friday, April 3rd, 2009Our family game night was one I looked forward to when I was younger. We all would pull up a chair around our kitchen table, make ice cream floats and play cards. It was a great time together.
Being a busy family of 6, we tended to go our separate ways a lot. So this was instrumental in reconnecting with each other. Because my husband’s family had the same fun times, we decided before we started our family to also implement this activity too.
As is common with childhood memories, you don’t see the problems involved in making such activities happen. We quickly realized that the age difference between our oldest and youngest (7 years) posed a problem in finding a game that both could play and enjoy.
A Few Ideas
So you weren’t really expecting me to not have a few ideas here, were you? I do. Starting with the game we learned on our last family vacation – Mexican Train Dominoes. We all could play it together – important with the size of our family – and it was fun. Plus the dominoes rules for Mexican Train aren’t hard to learn. We did find after buying the inexpensive game that the rules in the game were not the same as the ones we learned. Find the “Hellstrom” domino rules on the website listed below.