Name: CHEC Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-06-12T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-06-14T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Denver, CO

Tagged: caboodl, games, Homemade games, multiple ages

This topic has 28 replies, 29 voices, and was last updated 13 years, 6 months ago by Laura.bora.

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October 12, 2010 at 2:17 pm
suzukimom
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Lego has just brought out a series of games, and they look fantastic as you can change the game!
My son (7) got the Hogwart’s Castle game (Harry Potter), and he and our 4yo both can play it well, and I love it too.
November 30, 2011 at 1:45 am
Jenni
Participant
Thought I’d resurrect this topic – lots of neat stuff on here. Has anyone else heard of Caboodl? We found it at a public cabin that we hiked to a few weeks ago and played it the whole time we were there. The girls (7 and 4) wanted to bring it out with us, but we left it, thinking it would be easy to find…. unfortunately it’s not! 🙁
November 30, 2011 at 2:44 am
momto2blessings
Participant
My 9yo son and his buddy LOVE Stratego….good strategy game. :)Gina
November 30, 2011 at 3:02 am
missceegee
Participant
We like the 10 Days in … (Europe, Asia, etc.) games and a silly fun one for the younger set is Snorta.
November 30, 2011 at 4:13 am
blue j
Participant
Our favorites here:
Set
Tantagrams Challenge
Blokus
Stratego
Bananagrams
Boggle
Apples to Apples
Sequence & Sequence States
Math Dice
Rush Hour Deluxe (large board with a *lot* of puzzle cards)
This last isn’t a game, but we work togther to make some amazing designs… Fractiles.
November 30, 2011 at 4:24 pm
meagan
Participant
Some of our favorite games to play as a family are Bohnanza and Settlers of Catan. I believe these are both German games. Better suited for slightly older kids, but so much fun!
November 30, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Ruth Barron
Member
I have come up with a math board game (we call it leap-frog math) that works well for multiple ages. Mommy, Daddy, daughters ages 8, 6 and 4 can all play together using different flash cards ranging from color/shape to reading numbers to addition/subraction. I can probably let the 1.5 year old son join with animal identification soon, and let him move his piece wherever he wants. If anyone is interested in this game, I can share a picture of the gameboard we made and the rules we’ve used.
I’m working on a scrabble game for the same bunch using their word lists. I’m printing the word endings with which we’ve worked as well as some common letter combinations and using the delightful reader letter tiles. I’m printing three of each in each direction — horizontal and vertical, so there are six total. I think the four-year-old will be able to take a word ending and match it up with letter tiles, using the list for reference. I think I’ll print the word endings with color font or with background shadings and leave the common letter combinations black on white.
Our printer went out, so I’ve got it ready to print but can’t print it yet. I’ll have to play it a few times to see how I’ll do assigning tiles. If anyone does the scrabble game, I will mention that you have to do the grid slightly bigger than the letter tiles. Exactly the same size is not enough room.
Friday is game day, so I come up with lots of game ideas. We also travel a lot (as missionaries), so I have come up with various on the road (or in the air) games.
November 30, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Bookworm
Participant
We just got the very fun Flux. It is a little weird, though. You encounter different “objective” cards and different rule cards DURING the game–meaning the rules, and the POINT of the game, change constantly. Very good for the easily bored who have figured out how to “win” every other game in existence . . .
December 2, 2011 at 5:25 pm
chocodog
Participant
That sounds cool Ruth. I would like to see your board game. We are studying Africa and I was thinking about making a board game to go threw all the states. I thought I would start off at Egypt and make cards up with questions like… Animals, landmarks, resources and general facts… I thought they could move to the next state until they get all the way around the continent. This could work for a tiddly wink type game too. Land on the state and name something about it. also a large map and a bean bag. So many possiabilities!… I have so many games I couldn’t list them all but my kids are playing Woods and Water right now as I type this. I also have a game that is a survival game that I will give them in a few weeks. Can’t remember the name but I will try to remember to list a bunch later. We have a bunch of new ones that I haven’t got around to reading the directions yet. I am pressed for time so I will have to do this later….. Ta ta
December 4, 2011 at 4:22 am
ebcsmom
Participant
My children love the game Headbandz! They also like Ruckus,Flapdoodle,Farkle, and Spoons. Spoons is played with your traditional set of playing cards. What you do is say you have 4 players playing. You would put 3 spoons in the middle of the table in reach of everyone playing. You deal 4 cards to everyone, the dealer then starts passing cards around the table to his/her person on the right. The object of the game is to get 4 of a kind the first person to get 4 of a kind grabs a spoon as soon as the others see a spoon is gone they too can then grab a spoon the person left with no spoon is OUT. Then you take one spoon away and play with 3 players, then 2 players until you have a winner. This is always a very fun game with our children at our house, and is played very often!

December 4, 2011 at 8:23 pm
jmac17
Participant
We like Farming Game Kids. (The original Farming Game is the adults’ favourite, so now the kids can play too). It has three different levels, so it grows with the kids.
December 5, 2011 at 4:10 pm
SueinMN
Participant
We also really like the 10 Days in Europe, Asia etc. We have all five in the set. I’ve read that you can combine continents to make it more difficult but after playing a year we still haven’t needed to advance to this level. These are adults playing by the way. LOL
December 7, 2011 at 4:57 am
LDIMom
Participant
Third the 10 Days in … series. LOVE them and even our youngest can play. Short and educational and fun!
We also love Labryinth, Yahtzee, Scrabble Upwords (and Scrabble too).
I found a used (but like new) Equate game along with the add-on sets at a used book sale. Oldest DS and I love it! If you like Scrabble, you will be hooked on Equate (like Scrabble but with numbers, the add-on sets have negatives, fractions, etc.). Can become quite competitive LOL!
http://www.amazon.com/Equate-The-Equation-Thinking-Game/dp/B00004U1RA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323233784&sr=8-1
Love games for Christmas!!!
December 7, 2011 at 4:08 pm
Laura.bora
Participant
We love Scrabble Slam – It’s a card game with one letter on each side of the card. You need to use up all your cards by changing the word one letter at a time.
ex: find – bind – band – hand – hang – bang – bing etc.

You don’t take turns, you just slam your cards down as fast as you can. We play in teams. TONS of fun!