Having a family game night can be fun, and enjoy downtime after a busy week of work and school. Depending on your kids’ age, you can make this a late-night event on a weekend, once a week, or once a month. Continue reading for some essentials that you must have to make your evening successful!
Board Game Options
The number one essential for a successful night is board games. Take into consideration what each family member enjoys playing. Games like Utter Nonsense and Yogi surely make for lots of laughter!
A Score Board
Add a little fun competition by keeping score. Place a bulletin board on a wall in the family room for all to see. This is where you will note who won each game. Consider creating a reward for most games won at the month’s or year’s end.
Lots of Snacks
There’s nothing better than having a variety of snacks to enjoy with the family during your family game night. Try pirate cookies, chocolate pretzel Peeps or Mickey sandwich cookies. Your family will surely get hungry during this competitive game night together.
Room to Gather
No matter how large or small your home is, there should be a place where you are able to sit together as a family comfortably. You’ll want to have a large table and perhaps an open area if you’re going to do charade type games together.
Sportsmanship Mindset
Lastly, when you incorporate the whole family into a competitive family game night full of game playing, you’ll want to have your best sportsmanship mindset ready. While this is meant to be a family bonding event, there are times you’ll need to remember this is all for good fun, not competition.
There you have it, 5 essentials for a successful family game night. Hosting an event like this with your significant other and kids will surely help unite the bond between parent and child as well as encourage working together as a team. It’s important to spend quality time as a family as often as possible and this family game night idea should be easy enough to plan.
We love doing the family game night! It brings us closer together and we have a lot of fun. I agree with all these essentials.
Snacks and new games are always the best way to have a great family game night. We’ve played all of our games so many times, they’re getting boring. I need to check these out.
We love family game night! Board gamed are a must and yes lots and lots of snacks!
Now these are some awesome tips for hosting a good games night. You definitely need to have your sportsmanship hat on and having room and snacks always makes things go sweetly.
Great post. We have family game night 5 times a year with the winner of the most game nights getting the coveted Family Cup. Basically a really big trophy and bragging rights.
My eight year old keeps wanting to have a family game night. Now that we have a finished basement, we have all the space to spread out and play games as a family and eat fun things.
I love playing games but my husband isn’t a big fan. Whenever my daughter visits from NYC she’s always able to talk him into it. It’s always a fun time!
These are really great tips. We used to have family game nights but it never worked to well. I will have to try some of these and make it more successful.
Family game night is so much fun!! I agree with these 5 essentials. Good sportsmanship is hard to come by with kids. We have had table flips and crying fits. A gentlel reminder usually helps.
Family game nights can be such a great time. I totally agree that your 5 essentials will make a very fun family night! Being a good sport is not something to take lightly when you are with family or friends.
We used to have family game night at least once a week. I need to get back to organizing them again.
It has been awhile since my family had a family game night, but we’ll definitely have one after we get settled in a new house. Thanks for sharing these ideas!
We love Family Game Nights. I’m getting a really good collection of games.
Saturday is our game night and we always have fun with board games! Cut up veggies are a favorite snacks at home.
Snacks! Gotta have those snacks! 🙂 We love our family game nights. Looking forward to the next one.
We have Utter Nonsense too and absolutely love it! My daughter really enjoys playing it with her friends and it’s been an awesome family game. Themed snacks are always fun for movie nights!
A big variety of snacks is a win for our game night. We usually do it on Friday nights !
My boys and I absolutely love board games. We play them all of the time.
We tend to leave the score boards out. I like having fun without the competition.