"s-a-m-a-j-a-p"

Sundays, if chores, homework, and piano practice are already checked off the list, we like to play games after dinner.

Tonight we opened up Cranium Family Fun, which although we have had since last Christmas, we had never opened. What a riot.

You separate into teams and then move around the game board by successfully completing various goofy assignments – that involve drawing, acting, treasure hunts, flipping frogs, clay sculpture and more - trying to beat an egg timer.

Any game that has my husband running from the mail pile to the table with an insurance card stuck to his forehead, Charlie trying to tie a pony tail in his very short boy hair with twine, me trying to draw a big toe with my eyes closed, or Samantha spelling “pajamas” backwards, correctly, out loud, is a winner in my book. The kids loved it and even my husband who would rather “chew on tinfoil” or “shave [his] head with a cheese grater” than play a board game, seemed to have fun.

Here’s a sampling of our challenges:

  1. In the hokey pokey, what do you do after you put your right foot out?
  2. Choose a teammate who can get you to guess the answer by sculpting this subject in clay without talking. Clue: Remote Control
  3. Choose a teammate who can get you to guess the answer by drawing clues without talking, letters or numbers. The artists eyes must stay closed. "Spiderweb"
  4. Choose a teammate who can get you to guess the answer by moving the hand of another teammate who holds the pencil, drawing together without talking, letters or numbers. Only the guide gets to see the answer, and every other team member guesses: braces.
  5. Work together to spell this word backwards on the first try without writing it down. Team members take turns, adding one letter at a time to spell the word in reverse. Word: “gymnastics”
  6. Work together to go get these things before time runs out: Something you can pickup with your toes, something you can tie to your hair, something that sticks to your forehead when you press it on.

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