Love to Learn-- Playing Games

We LOVE playing games as part of our homeschooling day.  Often we set our books aside and play games.  While we haven't had any formal schooling since before Christmas we are enjoying and playing many games together.

We've played Harry Potter Clue (A very fun twist on the original Clue game themed around our favorite Hogwarts happenings), Telestrations, Jenga Quake, and more.  When I was asked by Education.com to offer one of their math games dealing with division and remainders on my blog for all my readers I gave a resounding yes!  My boys and I are already planning to play next week!  Does your family enjoy playing games together?



Here are just a few  posts I've written on game playing:

Top 25 Family Games

25 MORE of our Favorite Family Games

15 Restaurant Games for Families 

10 Math Games for Middle School

What have you been up to?  I'd love to hear from you either in the comments or by linking up your own blog post!  Please join us!

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  1. Dara @ Not In JerseyJanuary 2, 2018 at 8:56 AM

    We have been playing a lot of games here too and in fact played Clue the other night! My kids wanted the Harry Potter version but it was much more expensive than the regular!

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    1. Mother of 3January 2, 2018 at 6:16 PM

      We had the regular clue already and my boys loved it then my middle son started asking for the Harry Potter one so I surprised him with it at Christmas. It didn't hurt that I found it on sale at Amazon in Nov. :)

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  2. Lisa HealyJanuary 2, 2018 at 11:39 AM

    Happy New Year!

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    1. Mother of 3January 2, 2018 at 6:16 PM

      Happy New Year! Thanks so much for stopping by.

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  3. ClaireJanuary 2, 2018 at 3:19 PM

    We've just got Mouth-Trap. I'm not really a games kind of person but playing this was hilarious! It might just convert me into a games loving girl :)
    Happy new year

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    1. Mother of 3January 2, 2018 at 6:17 PM

      I hope it does! There are so many wonderful and fun games out there.

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  4. Anne CampbellJanuary 4, 2018 at 11:38 AM

    Thanks for hosting! Lots of fun ideas here!

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