Over the years the kids have been brought up on Family Games Night and having a variety of board games, puzzles, family games in the house, often they are learning-based ones, working up to more fun and mess around ones, these have often been bought at Xmas and birthday, or when we have looked for bargains, there also something that the kids tend to look at shops to swat up what they want.

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Going back
Even as far back as when Roo was a Toddler we have Orchard based educational games or there mini ones, this chain has continued through each child, unfortunately, they haven’t survived each child to the next but they have had a different selection each time, to be honest with both Tigger and then Piglet each older child has then helped out on those.

This hasn’t just stopped with the younger more educational ones, the puzzles were fun, the matching games were fine, but then as the older two got older the bigger funnier ones were the draw, though piglet likes seeing them play the Toilet game or the variety of pop up pirates, buckaroo, and pull my finger type ones, the older two like the fun of it them. ( i realise I’m old and have the old name terms on my mind)

Some Family Games Night
Roo though now being much older tends to like to play with her friends or Tigger with older versions, Monopoly, with its variations, Game of Life, Cluedo etc.. are more common for her to play now, at least once a week they will both play together on one of the games, Roo also really loves a game of Bingo, which is great because Boo and I also enjoy the odd game of Bingo with them.

Even with all their technology, Toys, TV etc.. the kids still like to play board games, mini-games etc, which is a great thing to help there development and creativity, plus its one of the few things they still play together. Boo and I came from that era where games were still a major thing, and we still promote those games, they can be fun, they can be competitive, you can have fallings out, you can lose pieces, you can get frustrated, but all of us will have some sort of memory of playing games, whether it is good or bad, puzzles, mini-games, or big games, we have all had fun once.
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71 Comments
Monopoly and Cluedo are always family favourites in our house!
27 April 2020 at 8:58 amWe love scrabble, card games, board games and jigsaws.
27 April 2020 at 10:26 amScrabble and Monopoly
27 April 2020 at 12:00 pmWe love Monopoly Hotels!
27 April 2020 at 12:20 pmWe love Jenga!
27 April 2020 at 12:51 pmWe love Scrabble, Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit.
27 April 2020 at 1:34 pmMonopoly is our favourite game as a family.
27 April 2020 at 2:15 pmFrustration and Monopoly
27 April 2020 at 3:04 pmMonopoly, uno and snakes and ladders are big games in our house. Even with our 4yr old. Our 4yr old has a selection of orchard toys games, she loves to play them with her sisters. One that encourages sharing which is great. I remember playing alsorts of games when I was a kid, and still do sometimes at family games night at the in laws.
27 April 2020 at 3:08 pmWe play a lot of games in our home and have a few favourites We love card games, Scrabble, Monopoly and twister
27 April 2020 at 3:13 pmwe love playing family games, at the moment we love exploding kittens and Crystal Maze from the 80’s
27 April 2020 at 3:16 pmI love the Orchard games, Pizza pizza is a firm favourite, despite the kids growing up and in to more involved games.
We recently spent 5 hours playing uno, the kids absolutely loved it x
27 April 2020 at 3:34 pmWhat a great chance to win a game! If I had children I would enter
27 April 2020 at 3:44 pmI love Orchard Toys, such a fantastic range! My daughter was a huge fan when she was younger, just sad she has grown up and prefers her phone these days. How times change! Totally recommend the games for younger children! Sim 🙂
27 April 2020 at 4:29 pmMonopoly although my grandson always manages to win
27 April 2020 at 4:31 pmWe love playing Frustration ax all ages can join in
28 April 2020 at 6:39 amWe like a game of Labyrinth
6 May 2020 at 1:15 pmWe are enjoying playing guess who and jenga together
27 April 2020 at 4:42 pmFingers crossed 🙂
27 April 2020 at 5:56 pmSnakes and ladders and Ludo are firm favourites in our house
27 April 2020 at 6:47 pmWe have many favourites, we love all our orchard games like the piggy matching game, cafe to learn about counting money and spider shapes and numebrs. Other favs our frustration and shark bite
27 April 2020 at 7:12 pmOur kids liked Monopoly when they were little. Our daughter liked more games, like CandyLand, Guess Who, and Operation. These would be fun for our son’s family to play.
27 April 2020 at 9:11 pmWe play allsorts o games together! Trivial Pursuit Family Edition, Kingdomino, UNO, Top Trumps, Guess Who, Connect 4
27 April 2020 at 9:24 pmI still love Ludo, and the kids love junior monopoly and catch the cap
27 April 2020 at 9:50 pmWe love a family games night in our house! The kids have got quite the collection of board games so we always get to try something new.
27 April 2020 at 10:31 pmWe love GUESS WHO
27 April 2020 at 11:39 pmMonopoly and cards
28 April 2020 at 4:59 amI used to have a fishing game when I was little and used to love that, my kids used to love their games when they were little
28 April 2020 at 10:47 amscrabble, is one of the games our family play so we can all join in
28 April 2020 at 11:09 amWe have a few of the Orchard Toys games in our house. Our favourites are Dotty Dinosaurs, Shopping List and Ladybirds.
28 April 2020 at 12:25 pmWe love playing frustration, that’s currently the only board game we have played as a family. I’ve recently got the my first Game of Life which we’ve yet to play, but definitely need to get more 🙂 My son loves the Orchard Toys Match and Spell game too!
28 April 2020 at 1:53 pmBoth my kids have played with Orchard Toys when they were a lot younger as they are such great educational games indeed. But at the moment they love Monopoly, Rubix and Otthelo
28 April 2020 at 2:06 pmA family games night is actually needed in our house for sure. It is a great way to keep the family entertained xx
28 April 2020 at 5:51 pmCan’t beat a game of snakes and ladders
20 May 2020 at 2:54 pmCannot keep up with all the funky games coming out. These look so cool. Family games are the best- those hours spent on monopoly were definitely worth it
28 April 2020 at 6:08 pmFrustration and monopoly are our favorites, as well as snakes and ladders and pairs
28 April 2020 at 6:16 pmWe love board games especially monopoly and scrabble it’s lovely to get all the family together!
28 April 2020 at 7:06 pmOur favourite if Game Of Life
28 April 2020 at 8:19 pmWe love the shopping list game, and monopoly is always a great game!
5 May 2020 at 9:25 amMost recently we have been playing a tooth fairy game!
29 April 2020 at 12:20 amI’ve always loved board games, and even now my boys are aged 16 and older, we still have family board game nights!
29 April 2020 at 3:57 pmWe’ve been playing a few board games since the lockdown as it’s nice to do some things which don’t involve tech! x
29 April 2020 at 3:58 pmWith my husband and adult children we love Balderdash, Monopoly, Charades and Botticelli. With my granddaughter we enjoy Snakes and Ladders, Sorry and several of the Orchard Toys Games, including Giraffes in Scarves and Shopping List.
29 April 2020 at 8:14 pmwe love scrabble, monopoly and of course snakes and ladders 🙂 My family play a lot of games I learned chess when I was 5, and a lot of different card games, bckgammon and checkers
2 May 2020 at 12:08 amMonopoly scrabble and hangman for us
2 May 2020 at 9:22 amWe love Hotel Tycoon. Its like Monopoly but with actual buildings that you build up – the little ones love it
4 May 2020 at 9:48 amWe enjoy playing Monopoly as a family! Although, I don’t know why we bother because you can guarantee it always turns into some kind of argument!
20 May 2020 at 4:02 pmI love playing snakes and ladders with my granddaughter
20 May 2020 at 5:06 pmPerfect for the kids. Thank you for the opportunity
20 May 2020 at 6:19 pmI love playing Cluedo with my family!
20 May 2020 at 9:22 pmWe like a lot of silly games like Buckaroo and Operation!
20 May 2020 at 9:45 pmWe love playing guessing games x
21 May 2020 at 6:38 amWe love card games, jigsaws and traditional board games. At the moment my eight year old son loves to play Connect Four. He is getting really good at it.
22 May 2020 at 7:23 amMine love hungry hippos and snakes and ladders
23 May 2020 at 6:32 amWe like to play Tumbling Monkeys
24 May 2020 at 6:26 amWe love orchard toys games to play as family, we have pizza pizza and giraffes in scarfs
24 May 2020 at 8:16 amOrchard toys games are great for our younger girls, us adults like playing Linkee
25 May 2020 at 11:33 amWe’re enjoying Labyrinth and Monopoly at the moment. Perfect for the whole family.
25 May 2020 at 12:01 pmMy kids love mousetrap
26 May 2020 at 10:06 amAt the moment its Monopoly
27 May 2020 at 4:23 pmWe love the Game of Life
28 May 2020 at 4:38 pmlove playing Monopoly it can last for hours if no one cheats lol
28 May 2020 at 8:34 pmWe love to play Monopoly
29 May 2020 at 1:12 amWe like to play Game of Life and Cluedo
29 May 2020 at 1:29 pmwe love playing cluedo!
30 May 2020 at 6:46 amWe love playing monopoly and cluedo
30 May 2020 at 3:13 pmWe love most games, we’ve played Orchard Toys bug lotto, Giant Jenga, Monopoly, Snakes and Ladders and Draughts.
30 May 2020 at 6:18 pmWe like Word has it and cluedo
31 May 2020 at 11:57 amWe love to play snakes and ladders as my daughter is five and loves it
31 May 2020 at 2:50 pmMonopoly is a great game to play as a family x
31 May 2020 at 4:53 pmWe love Scrabble and Snakes & Ladders
31 May 2020 at 6:00 pm