Mommy and Me Game day with Mattel

Preschoolers have fun playing games too!  It's a great age to start to teach them to play games and a great to start family game night!

We were fortunate to get to test out a bunch of games from Mattel that were perfect for preschoolers.
While playing our games, we learned the importance of how they can help our kids learn.

5 important concepts that playing board games can teach children.

1. Taking Turns and Having Patience

2. Playing Fair

3. Reasoning and Strategy Skills

4. Good Sportsmanship

5. Friendships and Working Together”

Setting up the games was fun, as most of the games were new to all the moms, not just the kids!

Uno Mooo!, a twist on the classic Uno! game was a lot of fun.  The kids loved the little animals and the fun little farm!

They also loved the Chipmunk Chompers Game™!  This game was so great for early literacy as well as fun!  The cute little chimpunks, adorable tree and acorns made learning letters and a great start to spelling fun!

The moms loved learning the games too and had fun playing Parrot Pile-Up™    This one took some patience from everyone as we built up the Parrot's raft with supplies and waited to see who toppled it over!

We had so much fun that we will be having another mommy and me game day soon!

Thank you Mattel!

GAME ON! with Mattel and momstown Barrie mamas

What an amazing time we had gaming with the mamas thanks to our sponsor Mattel and their Game On! Campaign.

It was a super fun night of laughter, and for some of our moms it was a rare night out kid free!!

Mattel sent us a box full of fun games and the moms were excited to get playing as none of the games in our box had ever been played before!

There were lots of laughs with the Mad Gabs as we tried to decipher the random words making up sentences or phrases.  Sometimes it was hard enough reading the words with the laughter never mind trying to guess!

The real fun came with Apples to Apples.  We had a great group of ladies and thought it would be super fun and that much more exciting to have all of us play.

This one really got the girls laughing.  The idea of the game is to match cards with words on them such as Cucumber, My Neighbours, Nuclear War or Prince Charnming to a definition that the Judge gives, for example Frustrating or Lusious.

You then pick the words that you think best describes what the judge has given and the she then chooses what she thinks is the best one.

The cards that came up had us howling.  And the more we played the funnier it got.

We have decided that having that much fun should be done more often... games night month it is!

Thank you Mattel for giving us the chance to try out these amazing games and have a hilarious night of fun!