Posts Tagged ‘Games’

Family Game Night

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Family Game Night


What is a Family Game Night?

It’s a fun way to spend time together and create a family tradition. Here’s a fun recipe on how to maximize the time you have together:

  • Together with your parents, mark your calendars for a night to spend uninterrupted with your family.
  • Eat dinner together, clear the dinner and clean off the table.
  • Leave the TV off and pull out your family’s favorite board game.
  • Put a bowl of snacks on the table.
  • Let the games begin!

When picking games for Family Game Night, you should consider:

  • The age(s) of all the kid(s) playing.
  • Your specific interests.
  • What games your parents liked to play as kids.
AGES Games
Younger than 6 Candyland, Chutes and Ladders, Hi-Ho
Cherrio
6–8 Years Old Sorry!, Monopoly Jr., Clue Jr.,
Operation,

Scrabble Jr.

8-10 Years Old Scrabble, Monopoly, Yahtzee, Clue,
Jenga, simple card games
10–12 Years Old Scrabble, Monopoly, Yahtzee, Clue,
most card games, many domino games
Teenage Virtually any game

Plan a Family Game Night

Challenging Crossword Puzzle

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Challenging Crossword PuzzleHere is a challenging crossword puzzle. It not only tests your general Bible knowledge but also has a lot of Bible abbreviations for books of the Bible and different translations of the Bible.

This puzzle is free to use for your own family fun and you can use it for church, Sunday School, Vacation Bible School or anywhere else that you want to.

Hope you are up to the challenge.

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Apostles Wordsearch Puzzle

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Apostles Word Search Puzzle LinkA wordsearch puzzle with the name of the Twelve Apostles

This puzzle is free to use for your own family fun and you can use it for church, Sunday School, Vacation Bible School or anywhere else that you want to.

You can play online or you can print it and play on paper. There is even a printable answer key.

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Play the “Crashdown” Game

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Crashdown GameUse your mouse to click on a group of 3 or more of the same colored squares to remove them.

Remove as many squares as quickly as you can.

It gets harder and faster as you progress through the levels.
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David and Goliath Crossword Puzzle

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

David and Goliath Crossword PuzzleDavid and Goliath puzzle. You can play online, print the puzzle and print the answer key.

There are a lot of clues and a lot of answers so this may be one that the whole family wants to work on together.

When you play online, don’t forget that you can get hints if you get stuck. But try to solve it without using too many hints just to see if you are up to the challenge.

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David and Goliath Wordsearch - Junior

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Free David and Goliath Wordsearch by Curt GunzFun wordsearch puzzle for younger players. It is all about David and Goliath.

This printable puzzle is free to use for your own family fun and you can use it for church, Sunday School, Vacation Bible School or anywhere else that you want to. A lot of people use it for Sunday School curriculum because it works well for early readers.

This is written by Curt Gunz and his family. Have fun with it.


ChurchFun for Early Readers




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David and Goliath Wordsearch by Curt Gunz

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Noah's Ark Wordsearch PuzzleTry this fun, free wordsearch puzzle all about Noah’s Ark. This can be used by kids in Sunday school. It can be a supplement to your church’s Bible class curriculum. It can be fun for Vacation Bible School, holidays or personal Bible study.

Curt Gunz wrote this for you to use so use it. It can be played as a free online game or a download printable. Teachers and students as well as families with children (or just adults) will love this.

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Family Game Night

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Professor QB the Christian Clown

Listen to Professor QB and Fun Guy Discuss “Family Game Night”

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Turn your speakers on and listen to Professor QB and Fun Guy talk about how to have a family game night.


A family game night is a fun, free way for your whole family (kids, parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents) to have fun together. These games are not online games or Wii, Playstation or XBox games. Instead they are the kind of fun games that the whole family can play around the dining room table or sitting in the living room.


Children of all ages will enjoy having a family game night.

Free Paper and Pencil Game “Nehemiah’s Wall”

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Nehemiah's WallThis fun game is a free download. Grab a pencil and a friend. Print out this free game sheet and play.

You take turns connecting the dots with a straight line across or up and down (no diagonal lines). When you make a square you put your initial in the square and get to draw another line.

Whoever gets the most squares wins.

We love to bring you fun games like this and these puzzle games can be fun on a trip or just playing at home. You can bookmark this page and download games all you want because this downloadable game is fun to play over and over.

Here is the link to the free game download:

Download Page

The reason this is called Nehemiah’s Wall is because in the Bible Nehemiah sets out to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity.

Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.”

Nehemiah 2:17 (NIV)

How to make a paper fortune teller

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

How to make a fun paper fortune tellerThis is a fun game you can play with friends when you want something fun to do. Some people call this free paper game a “cootie catcher” and some people call this free paper game a “paper fortune teller. ”

We just call it fun. Don’t worry, we give you step by step instructions so you don’t have to be an expert at origami in order to fold up this paper game.

You may have seen these before. We have complete download instructions, printing and folding instructions and ideas for game play.

Free Paper Game in Action

This makes a fun way to spend time with your friends and can be fun in the car.

Now, as Christians we know that there is no such thing as a real fortune teller. This is just a fun game. Don’t take it too seriously ’cause that takes all the fun out of the game. Just play with your friends and enjoy. If you as silly questions you can get some really silly answers.

Here is the link to download the printable sheet

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