I hope you’ve all had a fun-filled Christmas and are still enjoying the festive period! This year, the little ones and I are in France at my mum’s, and we love nothing more than an activity to do together or a party game to keep us all playing together and laughing.
Here are our favourites this year, in no particular order:
This game is hilarious. Just imagine Pictionary, but with a vibrating pen that quite simply won’t let you have a steady hand to draw a specific item for your team to guess. In A Wobble is a laugh-out-loud drawing and guessing game designed to be played in teams, and is a guaranteed way to get the whole family involved in the fun.
- Paintball Duck Shoot
My four little ones love bath time, and this new game is an absolute gem! All you have to do is put your four duck targets onto bathroom tiles and using the water pistol, aim at the ducks. The ducks change colour when hit with water so you know straight away when you’ve hit the target.
- Cranium is one of those games you can play with just about anyone and end up laughing till you cry. It’s brilliant and doesn’t require any specific knowledge or amazing skills, but focuses on the fun with word play, sketching, humming and acting.
- Party Face Mats
These face mats have been firm favourites in our house for the past couple of years. They make brilliant ice breakers at parties. Fancy a goatee? moustache? red lipstick? The pack contains 20 mats that are double-sided and can also be used as coasters. They’re so funny on children!
This game is all about helping a chicken sneak out her eggs out of a frying pan and back into her nest. You basically have to wear a beak (why not?) and attach the magnetic chicken to you back pocket and squat to grab an egg without breaking it. My mum has chickens so the children absolutely love playing it, so do the adults after a glass or two!
- Build a Bird Feeder
We love ‘Gifts in a Tin’ at home and I’ve probably bought every single one of them as presents. This one is a new one for us, and I find it a fab way to introduce young children to bird watching. With the kit, you can put together your own window bird feeder with a few simple steps.
- Make Your Own Insect House
Here is another one of our favourite ‘Gifts in a Tin.’ My four are fascinated by insects and naturally curious so this quick and easy to build insect house was one of their favourite presents this year.
- The Great Railway Express is a wonderful present for any train lovers. You wouldn’t believe how much fits in that small tin! When we first set my nephew’s one up, we were amazed it was all coming from the tin! It also goes back in the tin without fiddling at all. It’s brilliant for taking on holidays.
- Peppa Pig Skittles set
I always find that skittles are a bit of a timeless present. We got these for my nephew, a Peppa Pig fan who has just turned two, but all the children aged 2 to 9 were keen to play on Christmas eve. It’s the kind of game you keep for generations and generations and I hope my little nephew passes it on to his own children in the future.
- Dinosaur Model Kit
I used to love models like these when I was little, so when I first spotted them, I had to get my hands on them! Crevette loved his T-Rex and we have Dippy the Diplodocus to my 4-year-old nephew. All sales support our favourite museum directly, the Natural History Museum.
I have yet to find a child who doesn’t like LEGO, or an adult who’s not happy to help build a LEGO scene. Every Christmas day in our house is spent building a LEGO set and we all love it.
In France, it’s been awarded the prize for ‘Worst Christmas Present of 2017’ yet we love it! There’s nothing like a game where you haven’t got to think, and can get your adversary covered in whipped cream. It’s easy to set up, cleans in minutes under the tap and it’s just fun.
Oh. My. Goodness! I bought something very similar to this game for my brother (cheaper version in B&M Bargains), and we spent a good couple of hours laughing and trying hideously disgusting tastes… Cat food flavour didn’t sit too well with me!
- Mousetrap is such a classic! I wanted my children to experience this fun 1990s game and my auntie bought it for them. Hours of fun!
- Last but not least, the Nintendo Switch is THE present that has made everyone very excited this year. The console is compact, versatile and the games are top notch! So far, we’ve played Super Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Splatoon 2 and they are all brilliant games!
Disclosure: Some of the games mentioned above were sent to us as gifts, others I bought as presents. This post contains some affiliate links. If you click and purchase something, I may get a small commission.
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I enjoy playing Scrabble x
I like to play Pictionary and also the Disney 3d monopoly has a big pop up castle with it which is really fun to play.
my son had a dart board for xmas, we had great fun new years eve with it!
Amazing giveaway! The nintendo switch would be fab. Happy New year.
It’s amazing!
Love UNO, and pass the pigs
The children enjoyed playing ‘Pie Face’!
we are loving our new family board game.. game of life at the moment.
Wow fab Giveaway all these toys are amazing my family always play games at Christmas it’s always trivial persuit family idition my little lives it as he gets most questions correct lol. Thank you for the opportunity xxxx
we love Cluedo
Hide and seek!
we have got the new disney guess the film game but we love playing any kind of games together
we enjoy going swimming x
What a fab bundle of games to hopefully win
We love monopoly
we love playing the Simpsons cluedo game as family x
We like to play board games like dont wake dad x
We love to play trivial pursuit as a family
Treasure hunts
we always love playing monopoly
We are love playing build a beetle. We have two sets of games so the whole family together – never get tired of it
we love having connect 4 tournaments
Guess Who!
As a family we love to play the game pie face together
We have enjoyed playing the electronic Monopoly and Guess who games over Christmas which are our favourites at the moment
trivial pursuit and monopoly
You can never beat Monopoly!
we love pie face game
We like to play Monopoly….It always ends in an argument but we do have a lot of fun!
we like playing jenga
beano cluedo
Great to see the children having fun with a variety of games, activities, etc.
Monopoly is my all time favourite game to play as a family.
We love playing guess who as a family
I love Monopoly
Our favourite is Scrabble
We love playing board games as a family, our favourite at the moment is Game of Life
My children got it both in French and in English for Christmas 🙂
We like playing cluedo
Love it too
My kids love playing Floor is lava… and I can still sit on the sofa and say the words… That’s my perfect game for anytime I feel tired after work.
My 4 are obsessed with the floor is lava trend 🙂
We love playing monopoly and frustration at the moment, though my daughter and her dad are way too competitive!
One of my girls is so competitive we just let her win hahaha
My son recently got Junior Monopoly for his birthday, so that is our new favourite game! It’s much shorter than the older version so we can have several games in a row.
we love family games. We bought pie face and that is so funny to play. Laughed for ages. Some of thes games look brilliant
t’s hilarious, isn’t it! Especially when you get a grumpy loser!
We like board games like Monopoly, Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit.
I haven’t played Trivial Pursuit in years but I used to love it! Must play it again soon.
We love ghost hunt and laser tag
Love ghost hunt!
Monopoly – we play it very often x
We like playing co-op games on the xbox one like lego games
We’re getting into video games here too. I’m rubbish but I love Mario Kart!
Snake and ladders is our all time favourite
Classic!
We like playing card games, our fav at the moment is ‘Scabby queen!’
always love a good board game the kids like monopoly (but they cheat aa bit lol)
haha, mine are the same!
We love to play the board game King of Tokyo
I’ve never heard of it! Must find out about it 🙂
we often play Yahtzee – it’s good for the kids maths skills and fun xx
I’ve never played it. One to look out for!
Cluedo 🙂
Haven’t played it in years! Just to love it when I was little.
We love to play Uno
Same here: love Uno!
We enjoy playing Scrabble and also play table tennis together.
we love playing monopoly but we bicker a lot when we play
We love to play board games
Artictulate is a favourite in our house, it gets very competitive!
We most enjoy hauling out our old Snakes and Ladders game as all ages play on an equal footing.
True! We have something similar in France: le jeu de l’oie (Goose game) and my 4 love it!
We love playing Pictionary Junior!
I’ve never actually played it with my 4. Should definitely attempt it as I’m pretty sure they’d love it!
we really love playing games in our house. Our favourite is a fun version of Ludo
We like playing Uno and It’s A Chicken (bit like Pictionary, but aimed at children)
Uno is the best!
Anything todo with Arts n Crafts Boardgames we love KerPlunk & snakes n ladders
My 4 love Kerplunk too! One of our faves
Pie face
That one has been a firm favourite over the past couple of weeks!
We enjoy drawing and playing with connect 4
It’s bingo at the moment,it does make us laugh when numbers get missed!
My children got a proper Bingo game for Christmas. Quite excited to have a play with them!
Jenga is a favourite game with us as can be played by all
Love it too!
we love to play Monopoly
Our new favourite is Labyrinth. Great strategy game.
I used to love this game! Haven’t played it in 20 years 🙂
I’m desperate to buy Cluedo. I really want to learn how to play
You’ve never played Cluedo???
We love playing UNO at the moment x
We like to play Trivial Pursuit and also card games like “Go Fish” or “Beggar my neighbour”
We like playing monopoly
One game that we always go back to as a family is Monopoly Empire
We like to play monopoly
We love getting all muddy at the local forest. It usually involves the car needing a full valet because it’s that bad but it’s definitley worth it. It’s a shame it’s not even closer so we didn’t have to take the car at all.
Game mouse trap v beach football with all the basset hounds
We loved to play monopoly
We play snap
My little boy is 2 and loves games he is really good at taking turns and understands how to play simple games (although we simplify rules of others) his favourite are pop up bunny frustration buckaroo. I recently brought him ‘Don’t wake Granny’ and he is petrified of when her teeth pop out! Over christmas he discovered chess and we spent lots of time playing chess his way!
Awww bless him! It’s brilliant when children are into games!
We love a game of trivial pursuit
We love playing Gassy cow, a great game my boys got for Christmas
I like monopoly
Ludo
We love playing Scattergories, it’s great fun
Guess who and monopoly
we love monopoly
We like playing rounders outside
We loved playing cricket as children but we love now playing monopoly when nobody is cheating
I like playing scrabble with my family
Junior monoploly for us
we love monopoly or if the weather is nice we play football down the local field
we have cranium and its our fave game to play as a family
I love cranium!!!
We play football in the hallway with a soft football
We like to play monopoly
We were given Childrens charades which is good as they love it but can never think of their own ideas
Board games – the family favourite is Pay Day! 🙂
Bananagram.
Good old snakes and ladders with the grandchildren
Rapidough
Nothing beats a good game of Uno!
I love playing Operation and always have.
monolpoy
we enjoy playing monopoly as a family
We like Frustration and Scrabble
I love to play Pie face with my daughter,she always wins and finds the game hilarious!
We love twister as a family!
We all love board games and to be honest Dad usually wins! However his title of Games Master has been taken for his favourites of Frustration, Rat Race and Destination Europe by our 6 year old son! His 2 older sisters are not amused either as they have yet to beat Dad!
snakes and ladders
We like to pay Monopoly or Monopoly Junior
Ludo is my favourite party game
charades
Pie Face or Uno are our current regular family games
As a family we play a lot of board games. Our favourites are Ticket to Ride, Pandemic and Survive: Escape from Atlantis.
We love playing Monopoly and Family Fortunes 🙂
classics
My son got pig goes pop for Christmas so at the moment we love playing that as a family.
We love playing a mixture of games, my eldest enjoys snap most
We love all games, at the moment we’re enjoying Ticket to Ride Germany
We love playing Monopoly, although my kids are terrible cheats (and I always let them win)
hahaha, same here!
Monopoly 🙂
We love snakes and ladders, its easy enough for youngest grandson, he still cheats though
at the moment its jigsaws, my twins love them
My four love them too! My older 2 (7 and 9) have just started a huge one (1000 pieces)!
We play lots of kids board games. Pop up Pirate is our fav at the moment though!
We really like playing Uno at the moment, great fun and easy for everyone to understand!
we play chess or pool
Don’t wake Dad is a hottie at the moment
Twister!
Monopoly
We love to play Monopoly.
monopoly x
Articulate is my favourite game xx
We love Game Of Life as a family
Googley Eyes is a firm favourite at the moment
We love playing Uno and taking the dogs for walks.
Monopoly but never managed to beat my competitive dad!
Monopoly – although sometimes it doesn’t feel that enjoyable!
Monopoly!
My daughter loves playing monopoly at them moment in any form, she mostly wins as well. The whole family plays and luckily there have been no tantrums as of yet.
We all love playing Drumond Park’s LOGO together!
My daughter loves greedy granny
We love playing old classics charades, guess who and spin the bottle
Pieface always makes us laugh although it is a bit messy!
Wits and Wagers is a fantastic family trivia game
It has to be monopoly!
Definitely monopoly!
We love playing Monopoly
We love playing 5 second rule – always keeps us entertained as a family!
We like playing cleudo
Love playing hungry hippos with my 2 boys
Monopoly
We love the old favorite…Pictionary, but our newest favorite is Big Beard Battle Game
We all have our favourites, Yahtzee, Monopoly, Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit!
We love playing cluedo. Its my daughters favourite game
Pictionary is always good fun!
Monopoly! Classic fave
Monopoly junior is good fun
we love pie face sky high =) x
we love simpsons monopoly
I love monopoly!
Articulate
Articulate
We love playing Frustration
Monopoly
We love Game of Life in our house
We love Eye Found It as all the kids can play it!
We love playing Pictionary, always lots of laughs
We love Lego Creationary! The kids like Monopoly but it always ends in a fight…
Monopoly is favourite- it’s amazing how heated it can get, and that’s between the adults!
It’s monopoly on my house. Have got about 10 different versions of it
we love don’t wake dad
We love playing The Game of Life as a family
Classic Snakes and Ladders, Pie Face, Twister or Monopoly are some of our favourite
Monopoly
We love playing hungry hippos. Simple but gets very competitive. Nice to play a game the whole family can participate in
We love playing Pictionary when we have family and friends over
Sounds pretty boring but like ‘Guess Who’, getting stick-it notes, putting a name of a famous person on it and swapping to place on the forehead of the next person to guess, a very simple and fun game!
We like playing PayDay or spending time in our local park with the dogs, especially feeding the ducks. Luckily Doni couldn’t give a monkeys about the birds, he just wants to eat the bread lol.
we love card games, although some one always cheats!!
We love playing Sorry! which is a super game for the whole family to play together.
We love Scrabble
We love scrabble junior
We love Tension
Linkee…though we always end up arguing haha
Cluedo
monopoly
we love logo game or monopoly gets us all lol or argoing hahah
We love to play Monopoly and Scrabble as a family.
we love playing cluedo and monopoly
We played an excellent game called Monster’s Laundry at new year!
My favorite is Monopoly
Regularly have family board game nights. Our favourite is frustration and speak out
I love playing Monopoly still! It’s a classic & it always gets competitive!
its got to be monopoly!!!!!
Monopoly
Trivial pursuit
My son loves playing Monopoly Jr so this is usually the first board game taken from the shelf!
any games that lets everyone join in pictionary
We like an old-fashioned game of Snakes and Ladders.
We love Cluedo
We love playing cluedo
We love doing jigsaw puzzles.
Monopoly
Whose the Dude 🙂
221B baker street – Sherlock Holmes game
pie face
We love playing Pie Face as a family. Kids have so much fun playing it.
The grandkids and I love a good game of Don’t Wake Dad l. It’s so much fun. Great giveaway would love to be your lucky winner
cluedo
The little ones love Pie Face,Animal lotto and Happy Families card game
we like to play mousetrap
We love snakes and ladders.
We all love monopoly in our house, great game.
We love all sorts of games in our family- pop up pirate, monopoly, cluedo.
We love Monopoly
We like to play Monopoly 🙂
Well into Century Spice Road at the moment
When there are a lot of us together, we love to play charades
Playing board games – my kids get so excited when we say yes to a board game night….even if it ends up with someone swiping the board off the table as a bad loser (usually me)
love playing Junior Scrabble, can beat my godson at it!
Current favourite is doodlebugs (orchard toys)
I love the build you own birdfeeder – great activity with the kids that helps out wildlife
Wandering through the woods!
Love scrabble
Our family loves all types of boardgames, and we play with all ages. Tabboo is always a good one for everyone to join in with 🙂
Hide and seek or monopoly!
We love to play Monopoly.
Twister
Monopoly is favourite in our house at the moment.
Monopoly x
articulate
52 card pickup (my 2 year olds fave!) failing that Monopoly!
We love monopoly or game of life!
family trival pursuit is a favourite in our house we play in teams and it gets very loud and competitive
Twitter !
We love drawing and colouring in our house x
If we are not playing games like Mario monopoly or twister, then we enjoy playing with the indoor sand pit or Play-Doh
We like pie face
We love to play that 20 questions game where you each get a post-it stuck on your forehead, with the name of a famous (or infamous) person on it. You then try to guess who it is by asking questions with a Yes / No answer.
articulate is our families favourite game at the moment .
We all love a good game of monopoly
Connect fouR ! Loved it as kid and now children love it
Current family favourites are pop up pirate and pie face
Pictionary
Currwntly we spend lots of time playing Guess the film by Jumbo
Our favourite classic is monopoly. We started with Junior and now all the kids are capable with the Full Monopoly game and it helps them with numbers and money too so it’s great.
In a wobble looks fun, we love manopoly and gooey luise