Originally Posted by Rhonda

You could teach them all the old games we played as a kid.

Drop the Hankie
Freeze tag
Blindman's bluff
Red Rover
Badminton
Yarddarts
Croquet

Oh how fun! I had not thought about those fun things in years! Did one thing at Holidays once the family still teases me about. I used different color yarn (LOTS of yarn) for each family member. When they walked in the front door....they were immediately confronted with a maze of yarn running thru entire household. It was mixed with everyone else's color yarn. It took forever to do....and there were notes tied onto the yarn, hints and silly things too. They took about ten minutes or longer searching for the ends of their personal string/yarn. And at the ends were hidden their gifts (wrapped...so they still had to wait till after we had our meal etc.) I did it once, it was a big job... But it was worth it. This was way, way before these DGC were born. I'd forgotten all about that. Maybe it would be a good thing to do again...and let 'em help! Was about twelve people's gifts before..and just me doing the yarn. If they did it too...we'd get 'er done in no time!


Peasporridge hot
Hopscotch--I used blue painting tape and put down a hopscotch on my tile floor inside.
I also use masking tape to put down a maze on my floor. The older kids like this.
I use tape and put down a board on the floor. I lay tape in a square shape or a squiggle shape and then put small pieces of tape with color on them(crayon or marker) at intervals and this is then played like Sorry or Parcheesi or Monopoly etc. Call out numbers of steps to take or they have to go back 4 paces or they have to find the second yellow mark etc.
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