Family-friendly games for you and yours!

Hi, welcome to my list of games! One of the reasons I love collecting these games is that I believe quality family time is essential to having a happy family.

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  • New Year's pictionary word list

    New Year's pictionary word list

    Here's a free printable list of New Year's pictionary words! Happy New Year's!

     
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  • New Year's party game ideas

    New Year's party game ideas

    Hosting a New Year's party? Need some game ideas? Here you'll find some game ideas for different age groups and links to word lists to use for pictionary, charades, or any game you want.

     
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  • Paper telephone

    Paper telephone

    This is a great party game for teens or adults. Kind of like a cross between pictionary and telephone, players write sentences, convert each other's sentences into pictures, and back and forth until the results are hilarious.

     
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  • Catchphrase

    Catchphrase

    Catchphrase is a fast-talking guessing game, good for big groups of people. This post tells you how to play and includes some printable catchphrase word lists you can play with.

     
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Walk on the ceiling

This is a game, or really more of an activity, to play around the house. It’s ideal for one to two players, really entertaining for little children, a new favorite of my four-year-old, and the reason my handheld mirror is broken.

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The new app is available!

The new app is ready! My husband has been working hard to get version 2.0 of the Game Gal game words app up and ready to go. Today it was just released in the app store! Go download it if you haven’t! It’s got more word lists than before, an updated look and feel, and most […]

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Christmas gift pass

This is a Christmas gift exchange activity, using the poem “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” and the words “right” and “left” to instruct children to pass their gifts to the right or the left. It’s kind of like a white elephant gift exchange, but for younger kids because it’s easier and faster and, because there’s no actual choosing involved, will probably lead to less gift-picker remorse.

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