Games with family. Games and competitions for family day. Floor and board games for the whole family

What, besides common living space, unites several people in a family? Friendly Sunday lunches, cozy dinners together, big family holidays... But now, the feast and fun are over, and adults again freeze in front of the TV, children return to their favorite computer games, and the apartment again becomes a communal apartment for several people immersed in their own affairs. Sad. Why not spend the evening doing some common activity so that your children have something to remember later with warmth and love? After all there are many games and entertainment for the whole family, and we are ready to offer them to your attention.

Games for the whole family

Let's not talk about playing cards, dominoes, lotto, backgammon, checkers and chess. Everyone knows these games. We want to talk about creative games that every member of the household will enjoy, games that are exciting and unifying. For example, "A Tale in a Circle" . You can play this game at home, or you can use it to while away a long journey so that the road does not seem so tiring. So, someone says the first phrase, for example: “Once upon a time there was a princess.” The next participant continues: “And she had a favorite doll.” Then the next storyteller comes in, and so on in a circle. A fairy tale can end in ten minutes, or it can last for several days. The main thing is that this game involves the whole family.

Game for attentiveness and memory “What has changed?” . Lay out several objects on the table and invite the presenter to carefully study their location. Then, when the host leaves the room, make some changes to the order of things on the table and invite the returning host to find these changes. Sometimes it can be very difficult (one little girl simply took the refill out of the pen, and her mother wondered for half an hour what had changed), but it is very fun.

Game "Adjectives" . The presenter, having retired, writes a short story, deliberately omitting all definitions before the nouns, and invites the other players to take turns naming any adjective, which the presenter immediately writes into his story. The result is a fun read-aloud that generates lots of laughter and lifts your spirits.

The next game is called "Crocodile" , but there must be at least four players. Two teams are formed. The first team thinks of a word and calls it to one of the players of the second team. The task of this player is to pantomime the mystery so that his team can guess the word. The team can ask questions that can only be answered with “yes” and “no,” and also only with pantomime. If the word is guessed, the teams switch places.

In addition to games, you can come up with other entertainment that will bring your family together and bring pleasure to everyone. For example, work out together on the weekend cooking something delicious . Stick dumplings or bake pies with different types fillings, and don’t drag them into your room to the TV or computer, but have tea at a common table. Or master some outlandish dish together, because it’s both healthy and fun when done with the whole family!

You probably have a lot of family photos, but you don’t have enough time to put them in an album. Call your family for help, let them help you sort photos by dates and events , let them come up with interesting, funny captions for photographs, because for loved ones there is nothing more valuable than family memories. So remember different stories from your life, arranging pictures in places. It will be interesting for both you and your children.

Distract your child from computer games and various applications on tablets and smartphones - sometimes a difficult task for many parents. But at the same time, parents cannot always offer an interesting alternative for children in the form of outdoor or board games. Today we will tell you what you can play with the whole family so that no one gets bored.

Games on fresh air not only bring health benefits, but also develop in children such qualities as dexterity, strength, ingenuity and creative thinking. These games can be played on the playground, in nature, on the lawn in country house, and you will need very little additional props.

Ball up!

For this game you will need a ball, with which the driver stands in the center of the circle created by other players. He throws the ball as high as possible with the words “Ball up!” (you can come up with your own signal word), and at this time the players run away from it as far as possible (you cannot hide behind trees or other objects). When the driver catches the ball and shouts “Stop!”, the players must freeze in place and not move (if someone does not stop at the signal, they must take three large steps towards the driver). Now the driver’s task is to throw the ball and hit one of the players with it; if he manages to do this, then this player becomes the driver in the next game. If it was not possible to stain anyone, then the driver again stands in a circle.

Canvas Basketball

You will need a piece of tarpaulin, in which you should cut holes of different diameters (just not smaller than the existing ball), cover their edges with colored tape and assign a value in points to each hole. Then the players take turns throwing the ball, the winner is the one who scores in 10 throws maximum quantity points. You can complicate the task and make each throw at a greater distance from the tarpaulin than the previous one.

Street twister

This game can be purchased at the store, or you can draw the outlines of circles on the asphalt yourself using colored chalk (if you don’t mind your lawn, you can draw circles on it with special paints on water based, which are washed off after rain). You yourself determine the size of the playing field and the size of the colored circles, and if you want circles of the same size, take a cardboard box, cut a hole in it and use it as a stencil.

Cobweb

Find two trees or pipes standing next to each other in your yard and stretch two ropes between them at the top and bottom to create a “window.” Now let the children (and adults too) jump through the “window” so as not to hit the ropes. This develops dexterity and coordination of movements in children, teaches them to jump in height and determine by eye the distances between objects. Then the task should be complicated: between two ropes, stretch a few more like a web, now let the participants climb through the obstacle without touching the ropes or breaking them.

Push-pull

This is an unusual running competition because you have to run in pairs. The players stand with their backs to each other, holding hands. Now each pair must cover the distance from one landmark and back, without tearing their backs away from each other and without breaking their hands. First, one participant runs forward and pulls the other player with him, then they run back in reverse - the one who pushed becomes the one who pulls, while trying to move synchronously with his Siamese twin. The winner is the pair that covers the distance there and back faster.

Ice riches

In hot weather, this game will delight children. Freeze ice cubes in a mold, first placing a small toy or other “treasure” (this could be, for example, flowers or plant leaves) in each mold. Or you can color the water with food coloring, then you will have multi-colored “precious stones” with riches. Give them to children and let them try to melt the ice with their hands, warm breath or other means. Just be careful so they don't accidentally swallow the surprise!

In order not to cause overwork in the child, you should alternate active games with calm ones from time to time.

Fanta

This is a good old game that both children and adults love to play. Each player collects one item and puts it in a bag. One of the players is blindfolded and must come up with a task for the owner of each item pulled out of the bag by the presenter. You can do it another way: before the start of the game, each participant writes notes with tasks and puts them in a bag, then the bag is passed around in a circle and everyone must pull out their task for this con. You can come up with anything you want: sing a song while sitting under the table, give flowers to the first person to enter the room, or even take the iron out for a walk.

Hat

All participants come up with words, write them on pieces of paper and put them in a hat. Then they are divided into pairs, and here the fun begins: in one minute, first one member of the pair, then the other must explain to each other as many concepts as possible, which are written on pieces of paper pulled from a hat. If you are playing with children, you should, of course, avoid words like “reverb,” “hydroelectric,” and “somnambulist.” The pair with the most words guessed in 2 minutes wins.

Crocodile

Before the start of the game, a presenter and an explainer are selected. The presenter says a word to the explainer, and he, with the help of gestures, facial expressions and movements, must explain it to everyone else. The person explaining is prohibited from making any sounds, showing or using surrounding objects, but if the word is difficult to explain in its entirety, then it can be shown that he is explaining it in parts. The player who guesses what is being said becomes the explainer in the next round, and the one who made faces in front of the participants in the last round guesses the word.

Leaning Tower

In stores, the game is sold under the name "Jenga", but you can make it yourself. To do this, you will need about 50 wooden blocks, 25 centimeters long and about two wide and high. Then you should build a tower, alternating longitudinal and transverse laying of bricks. Players then take turns carefully pulling out one block at a time and placing it on top of the tower. This must be done as carefully as possible, otherwise the tower will collapse. The player whose actions caused the collapse is considered the loser.

Fun competitions for the family will entertain and unite relatives. Competition between families will add excitement to the games and boost team spirit. Competitions with the participation of children will not let the kids get bored. Fun relay races and games will add special excitement to the family holiday and leave pleasant memories.

The competition involves 2 or 3 people. Each participant receives ice cream in a waffle cup. The contestants' task is to eat dessert as quickly as possible. But there is one condition: the ice cream must be eaten from the other side, that is, from the bottom of the cup.

The participant who eats the dessert faster than the rest wins. It is a good idea to give out plenty of napkins before the competition starts as the ice cream will start to leak at some point.

Game "Full Serious"

All family members play. First, players must come up with keyword(for example, "tomato"). After that, they begin to ask each participant any questions in turn. The players' task is to answer the question posed with complete seriousness on their faces using the keyword. The one who laughs leaves the game. The most serious player wins.

Sample questions

What's your mom's name?
Who are you friends with?
What's your favorite movie?
What subject at school do you like best?
What's your favorite book?
What is 2+2?
What is your strongest character trait?

Game "It Was There"
All family members play. A certain set of objects is laid out on the table (the more, the better): comb, scissors, fork, book, pins, etc.
One of the players takes on the role of leader. He stands near objects. The rest of the participants must remember what is on the table within 10 seconds. Then they close their eyes and the leader removes one of the objects. After this, the players open their eyes. Their task is to name the item that is missing. The person who guesses first changes places with the leader. The game continues until interest disappears.
Game "Woof"
2 family members play (or 2 teams of 2 people). To play you will need a large deck of cards. They must be mixed well and distributed to each participant (group) in equal quantities.
Players (teams) begin to simultaneously remove cards from their deck and place them face up. If the same cards come up (for example, two jacks or two eights), participants must quickly shout the word “Woof.” Whoever managed to do this earlier takes this deck for himself. The participant (team) who has the entire deck of cards in their hands wins.
Game "Body Parts"
Game-entertainment. All family members play. You need to prepare cards in advance, on each of which you should write a certain part of the body: ear, heel, left finger, knee, etc. Before the game starts, all the pieces of paper are put into a hat and mixed.
Then each participant takes turns taking out a card and saying out loud what is written on it. All players must touch this part of the body first with their left hand, then with their right hand. This needs to be done very quickly.
The game helps to cheer up the participants and lift everyone's spirits.
Game "Family Menagerie"
All family members play. Each participant writes the name of any animal on a paper sticker and sticks it on the neighbor’s forehead so that he does not see the inscription. The players' task is to guess their animal. To do this, participants take turns asking leading questions that can be answered clearly and specifically “Yes” or “No.”
Sample questions
- Does this animal live in the forest?
- Does it eat honey and berries?
- Is this a bear?
- The game ends when everyone has guessed their animal.

Valeria Protasova

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We invite you to consider several ideas for games and competitions for family holidays and leisure; let’s talk about what games and competitions you can come up with with your family that will be interesting to both children and adults, allowing everyone to play without exception. As you know, cozy family evenings bring all family members very close, so we suggest you organize such events and repeat them as often as possible.

Intellectual and educational games for the whole family, allowing you to get to know each other better and show your abilities

Game "Associations" for adults and children from 3 years old
This is a very simple and at the same time educational game that requires a lot of vocabulary, and the ability to develop logic.
Rules. A word is called, then the next participant selects the closest and most logically appropriate, from his point of view, association to it. The association can be absolutely anything, and the initially guessed word can lead to completely unexpected turns in the logical chain.
Example. The first hidden word is “toy”. The next participant associates it with a ball, the ball reminds of football, football of the field, field of flowers, flowers of summer, summer of the sea, sea of swimming. And so on. Words can be absolutely anything, nouns, adjectives or verbs. This will make this game even more exciting and fun for the whole family.
Kind family game“Wishes” for adults and children from 2.5 years old
This game is very suitable for family holidays, and especially for the New Year.
Rules. Family members sit at the table. It is advisable so that everything is “mixed”. For example, grandmothers sat next to their grandchildren, and parents sat next to their children. The essence of the game is that each player must wish something to the family member sitting to his right, what, in his opinion, he wants most. The participant who thinks for a long time is eliminated.
For example, if dad works a lot, then the child wishes him to go to the seaside together, and if the eldest son graduates from school this year, then we can wish him successful admission to the institute he dreamed of entering. The game brings family members closer together and helps them get to know each other better.
Creative and fun game "Fairy Tale" for adults and children from 10 years old
Rules. The only details you need are a sheet of paper and a pen. The first participant writes the title sentence of the fairy tale and folds a piece of paper, passing it to the next one so that he can write a continuation. And so on in a circle. The main thing is that each subsequent participant does not see what the previous one wrote.
Example. The first participant writes on a sheet of paper “Once upon a time there was a grandfather and a woman”, passes it on to the second, where he comes up with his own continuation of the fairy tale “and they flew to distant lands to save Vasilisa the Beautiful”, the next participant, not seeing what the previous ones wrote, continues “which turned out to be later, the little humpbacked horse.” The options can be completely different and the most unpredictable. At the end we unfold a funny fairy tale, read and all laugh together at the gobbledygook of family creativity.
Developing observation game “Searching for the Lost” for adults and children from 3 years old
This competition for the whole family develops attentiveness and visual memory of its participants.
Rules. For props you need a colored tablecloth and many small items. These can be tubes of lipstick, small boxes, caps, ballpoint pens, teaspoons, matchboxes - in general, anything you find at home. The more varied the details, the better. All these utensils are laid out on the table, which is previously covered with a tablecloth, and the participants sit around. The essence of the game is to remember all the objects lying on the playing field and immediately notice the object that disappears from the table.
Example. The driver invites the players to look carefully at the table and try to remember many more objects and how they are located. After which everyone must close their eyes, and the driver removes from the table and hides one of the objects. At his command, the participants open their eyes and try to figure out which object has disappeared. The one who guesses becomes the driver.
The “12 Months” drawing competition is suitable for adults and children over 7 years old.
This educational and fun competition is suitable for any family holiday. The competition reveals drawing abilities and will be interesting for both children and adults.
Rules. Participants are divided into two teams. Each team is given 12 A4 sheets, colored pencils or markers. The task is that after the agreed time, the teams must provide all 12 sheets, on each of which they will draw one of the 12 months of the year. The team's task is to guess which month is depicted in each drawing of the opponents.
Example. As a hint, you can mark some events in the pictures that symbolize a particular month. For example, March is associated with March 8, April with Cosmonautics Day, and December with New Year's troubles. And so on. The team that guesses the most pictures wins. Well, the second team can be awarded incentive prizes for intelligible images.

Active and energetic games and competitions for the whole family that you can play at home

Clockwork catch-up game "Zhmurki" is suitable for adults and children from 3 years old
This fun game is familiar to many of us since childhood. And until now, Zhmurki are one of the main children's entertainments at family holidays, in which adults are happy to participate.
Rules. The point is very simple. First, a driver is chosen. They blindfold him. The rest of the players stand around him, facing the center. At the signal, the driver begins to catch the participants, and they run away and dodge him. The driver must guess the caught participant by touch, without untying his eyes. If he guesses correctly, then the person caught becomes the driver. The winner is the one who is caught the least number of times or not caught at all.
Example. It is better for the drivers to initially make one of the adults so that he can show by example how you can play this game at home without destructive consequences. Children scatter in different directions within the same room, and a blindfolded participant tries to catch them by touch and, without peeking, determine who got caught.
A fun musical game “Masquerade” is suitable for adults and children from 6 years old
Rules. Props include a large bag and a lot of different clothes. The brighter, funnier and more unusual the clothes are, the better. This could be underwear, national costumes, fur hats, stockings and tights, grandmother's leggings, mother's evening dress and so on). All clothes are placed in a bag, a presenter and a DJ is selected. The host turns on the music, to which all the other participants begin to dance and pass each other a bag of clothes. When the music turns off, the participant who still has the bag in his hands must randomly pull out an item of clothing from it and put it on himself. The game continues until the bag is empty.
Example. The music can stop at anyone, just as the thing that the participant takes out of the bag can be the most unusual. For example, a dad might come across his daughter’s swimsuit, and a grandma might come across a flamboyant miniskirt. As a result, everyone will look very funny and colorful.

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4) Playing Crocodile or Association. One says a word in the other’s ear that needs to be shown to the other players.

5) Game of “Guess the Melody” (the presenter, including the little ones, sings the melody without words, and the players must finish singing it with words. Second option: something like “Guess the Melody” and “Crocodile” two in one. The essence It’s like this: the host (well, as a rule, the husband starts) explains the brief essence of a song, the player’s task is to guess what kind of song it is. The one who guessed becomes the host)) For example: “This is a song about how a certain male citizen plans. ride at high speed on a two-wheeler vehicle in order to get to the dense thickets of grass...” - the song “I will ride the bike for a long time.” From experience: “Sometimes we both laugh until we cry over explanations. This game also helps us out on long car journeys.”

6) Watch old filmstrips.

13) Game “This is in this room...” - in turns, all participants select an object in the room and describe it, and the rest guess.

20) Listen to audio fairy tales.

21) Conduct experiments.

1) Good old board games: change lotto and dominoes. And also corners, checkers, chess, memories and all kinds of tabletop walkers.

2) Modern board games. Favorites: Dobble, Cephalopods, Imaginarium, Fructo10, Janga, Scrabble (for those who can read) and others (there are a lot of them now, look for what you like).

3) Study the alphabet in an interesting way: study one letter every day, bake this letter from a dough strand, look for words in the house for this letter, and then together come up with a fairy tale with this letter.

4) Playing Crocodile or Association. One says a word in the other’s ear that needs to be shown to the other players.

5) Game of “Guess the Melody” (the presenter, including the little ones, sings the melody without words, and the players must finish singing it with words. Second option: something like “Guess the Melody” and “Crocodile” two in one. The essence it is as follows: the host (well, as a rule, the husband starts) explains the brief essence of a song, the player’s task is to guess what kind of song it is. The one who guesses becomes the host)) For example: “This is a song about how a certain male citizen plans. ride at high speed on a two-wheeled vehicle in order to get to the dense thickets of grass...” - song “I will ride the bike for a long time.” From experience: “Sometimes we both laugh until we cry over explanations. This game also helps us out on long car journeys.”

6) Watch old filmstrips.

7) Cook something tasty with the whole family.

8) Compose a fairy tale: everyone speaks one phrase and passes the baton to another, it is very useful for the development of imaginative thinking in children, and besides, it is interesting for children and everyone has fun)

9) If the boys play football (even at home), fight with dad and organize competitions for accuracy and endurance.

10) Draw with children (dad draws, and then the children paint). Or everyone can color the pictures together. Then, based on these pictures, they can come up with and tell each other various stories and stories. It turns out very interesting.

11) Play in a noise orchestra (according to the principle of Orff pedagogy) - dad plays the harmonica, and the rest - whoever can find what they can play.

13) Game “This is in this room...” - in turns, all participants select an object in the room and describe it, and the rest guess.

14) Look at an old family photo album and tell the children who is in the photo and where. It’s very cool to look at photographs at night, a selection of photos from long-ago travels on the projector.

15) A good tradition for believing families is to read the Lives of the Saints after dinner.

16) Tell each other what happened during the day, remember the good things, discuss family news and make plans. The second option is to sit in a circle, hold the hands or legs of the kids, so it’s convenient to tickle and stroke them, and tell who has something new good that happened that day. From life: “At first it was very difficult, our eldest son, at that time he was 4 years old, was generally silent and looked at us strangely, then he started talking. And this is how we have been playing for 5 years. Perfectly calms you down before bed, we get to know each other better, become one. Wonderful feeling. We really appreciate these moments. Even when we are not together, we call each other in the evenings and talk. The son also got his grandparents talking in this way, who were very stingy when it came to showing emotions and sharing impressions. It’s great to teach you to see a lot of joy in every day, it teaches you to make discoveries and appreciate your achievements. As a bonus, it forms wonderful, warm, trusting parent-child relationships, for example, now on the eve of adolescence, when children close themselves off and move away from their parents, I still know a lot about the life of my son and his friends, naturally, these are our secrets and we are going nowhere We can't stand it. And I can gently guide him along the path of life.”

17) Dress up as a waiter and administrator, write a dinner menu, a guest book. Each time add details in the form of the name of the restaurant, dishes, new characters.

18) Prepare news of the world, country, city and our family. And on Fridays I perform and show tricks.

19) A game of nonsense, when you write phrases on pieces of paper and pass them around until you get a story or a poem