Our kids love to see the UPS man. It usually means Momma has been snooping around on Amazon again and ordered something fun.
This week, I ordered some new cups (non-sippy ones that won’t drip) and a special surprise for our school room.
Battleship
The original one. The one that didn’t talk for you.
At first, Taderbug was worried it was a war game with scary graphics and such. She was surprised to see it was little plastic ships and little plastic pegs. No blood, no zombies.
Doodlebug was the first to ask where the batteries went. I could hear the Mr. chuckle from across the yard. It seems all the old games have gone the way of “batteries required,” since almost everything now makes noise of some kind. Our game of Clue is electronic now – a highly disappointing change since it altered the rules of play. Monopoly now comes with electronic banking – so much for teaching math. A quick search of games showed me most of our favorite old-school options in a Kindle format!
How can you have family game night huddled over a Kindle?
We cleared off the end of our newly built – still unfinished – kitchen table. The Mr. and I showed them how to set up the boards and place their ships. We gave them instructions on reading the grids and marking their hits.
Fifteen minutes later, I heard the Mr. announce that he was playing the winner. I chimed in that I would play the winner after that, and an impromptu family game night began.
No beeps. No blips. No flashing lights.
Now, if we could only get Lil Man to stop stealing the ships we might actually have a winner.
Leave us a comment about your favorite old school game that you play with your kids. Do you have ways to incorporate it in your school plans? Be sure to share those ideas as well.
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Ooh, I think I need to get us Battleship for homeschool (or Christmas)! We used to have one, but sadly lost the ships (3 boys). Now I remember playing with pen and paper growing up, so maybe I’ll start by teaching that version first:)
We go through stages of various games. This summer the winner was Boggle, and talk about educational – with big kids we look up words in the dictionary every time, and my little one is learning how to make words. Great fun (only if momma wasn’t so competitive!!!).
We’ve also played a lot of Sequence this year, and Walk the Dogs with my littlest.
We don’t have Boggle….will add it to our wish list.
we just dusted off twister from my parents basement! The kids don’t know their left or right yet….but they can work on getting a hand on the right color, or a foot on the right color
. They also enjoyed taking the spinner and telling me where to put MY hands and feet!
Rebecca, I want pictures
We have twister, but I am old, so I do the spinning now.
ommmmm. I think my camera will be broken, like, every time we play…..
Battleship is a favorite, but Sorry is dominating right now as far as old school games go. We also like Swish, Spot it, Qwirkle, and Blokus – kind of new, but no batteries.
We got Skip-Bo this year and have been enjoying it. Even our 5 year old can play, though it works best to use fewer cards in the stock piles to help make the game a little shorter.
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