Fun games for kids!

This post is about some fun games our family really enjoy and also help me get through my homeschooling day!

Feed the Kitty:  This is a fun fast cute game that runs right around $10 and is well worth the investment. It has 20 wooden mice, a food dish and 2 custom dice.  It is fast and takes about 15 minutes to play.  It says 4+ on the box I have had children as young as 3 play this. In this game your littlest one will most likely get to play first which is great excitement for them.  The directions say the person with the shortest pinky goes first.  You roll your dice and either pass mice to the player on the left , put them in the cat dish , take them out or keep them.  If you have a child just dying for your attention this is great because it does not take long and they are satisfied because you played with them.  The last person with mice left wins the game.  Beware just because you lose all your mice doesn't mean you are done playing.  Your opponent could roll a pass to the left and give you more mice!  Also an older child can take a younger one to a corner of a room and play this with them to help appease them.  Great fun.  Feed the Kitty ranks an A++ in our home.  A must have.

Hisss:  Hisss is a simple card game that is all about building a snake with your cards.  A snake must have a head a tail and a body.  If you are the lucky one to place the final piece (either a head or tail) you get the cards that make up that snake.  The colors move and blend from one to the next so you have matching skills involved. When you are all done the winner is the person with the most cards.  It is fun and simple for little kids but does need a little space for you to lay the cards out as you build the snakes.  This is also a great fast game that you can play or assign an older child to do with a younger one.  Not quite as fast moving as Feed the Kitty but fun!  '

Granny Apples:  Oh my granny has an apple orchard and you want to get the apples!  This is a fast moving game but I have modified it in the past so I could have younger children play it.  The lowest I have been able to go with this is 6-7 yrs.  The game has 8 wooden apple dice that you roll.  In the original game the person who counts up the apple total rolled first is the winner and gets that many cardboard apples to keep. Several rounds later when all the apples are passed out the winner is determined by who has the most.  I have modified this by letting each person roll a turn and then counting up the apple count and getting that many.  You have whole and half apples and worms and birds that take away apples and pics of granny which means she gets apples in her basket.  Fun fun fun but not for a preschooler.

Zeus on the loose:  This is an adorable fast moving card game and your child needs to be able to add and subtract in their head up to 100 with no problems. The box recommends 10+ I have had kids as young as 8 play without problems.  Zeus is a little plastic statue holding a lightening bolt (of course).  You want to have Zeus.  As you play Zeus moves from player to player.  If you play a card and your score come out at and even 10,20,30 etc.... you get Zeus.  Play a minor greek god card that says steal Zeus and you get Zeus....the score on Mt. Olympus ( discard pile) goes up and down until you hit 100 and the person who makes the pile an even 100 gets Zeus.  You win you get a letter to spell Zeus.  The first person to spell Zeus wins. This is a fun fast action card game for sure.

All of these are available on Amazon and a specialty toy stores.  All are well worth the money you pay for them. Check them out today.