What our Family Played with During the Holidays

Over Christmas and New Years our family used some of our favorite Timberdoodle items during our different get-togethers!

Our first gathering was our fire department’s Christmas party, at which our family was responsible for child entertainment. We racked our brains for a while on this one, what would be engaging, indoor, and suitable for 1-25 children confined in a smallish room! We ended up with an assortment of different activities, (Rolit, Exago, Duplos, arts and crafts, etc) but our favorite was “target practice.”

After building a number of Citiblocs towers (which was almost an activity in and of itself), we held a shooting contest to see who could knock the towers down first with Hot Rocketz. It was a blast – literally! Of course the adults couldn’t stay away either, and it provided an easy and fun way to direct some of the endless energy that evening.

Our second gathering was our New Year’s get together with extended family and for this gathering we loved Word On The Street. Our family is not a “reserved” family and so of course we had many enthusiastic plays and lots of laughter. Word On The Street gave us an entertaining outlet for our excess of (friendly) group competition. Because we had family members arriving at different times the freedom of only having two teams, and no limit on how many team players, was a blessing.

Here are some short video clips Joy managed to capture while we were “trialing” the game with Grandma before the other relatives arrived: