let the games begin

As I was cleaning and organizing the game closet one day for the billioneth time, I reached up to put away a game and took a moment to look at the shelves and shelves of games we have collected over the years. As I scanned all of the boxes and bags I realized it has been years since my kids have played some of these treasures. Did my little ones even know we had all of these games? I doubted it, so I came up with a little plan. A plan that would re-introduce the good old fashioned board game to my kiddos.

I wrote down all of the games we owned on little strips of paper.

It took me a total of about 5 minutes.

I then put all of those strips of paper into this jar. And then I set the jar on the table and explained the rules. Which were: Pick a paper and play that game. No put backs. If they picked it they had to give it a try.

And then the game playing began.

My kids happily picked papers and played game after game after game.

And after a long absence little Miss Caterpillar Scramble finally got some action.

I think she was happy.