Don't Eat Pete
Life shouldn't be all work and no play. It is
great to understand families better, but we need to be doing things together too.
great to understand families better, but we need to be doing things together too.
So here is a game that our family loves to play. It is quick, easy, any age can play (our 18 month old loves this game), and it is fun.
How to Play: Get your piece of paper and draw lots of silly faces. Your kids would love to be involved in this part. Draw the squares for them and then have them fill each square. As you can see our "board" has gotten a lot of use. If you look close, in the bottom right hand corner, you can see where our daughter accidentally drooled last time we played. To much laughing with too many skittles in her mouth. :)Put a piece of candy, or snack in the middle of each square.
Send one person out of the room. Everyone remaining in the room agrees on which square with its piece of candy will be "Pete".
Once the person re-enters the room they are to start picking up pieces of candy one by one and eating them. (They are trying to not pick the same square that the group decided on while they were out of the room.)
As soon as the person picks up "Pete" everyone at the table yells "DON"T EAT PETE".
That ends the person's turn.
Fill each square with new candies, send someone else out of the room and decide on a new secret square.
Object: The object is to try and eat every piece of candy, leaving Pete until the very end.
Kids love this game, they love to yell "Don't eat Pete".
If you decide to play, let me know. I would love to hear how it goes at your house.
Have a Great Weekend.
xo
Family Volley
Someone made this for us for a Conference weekend. My kids thought it was great!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like such a fun game for FHE!
ReplyDeleteThis was one of my favorite games as a kid! My mom had made our board from a colored file folder, with 9 squares. The pictures of "Pete" were little guys made out of different candies. Then she laminated it, and it could fold up normally and store in the filing cabinet. And now that I just realized that I don't have a copy for my own little girl, I am going to put that on my list of things to do this weekend!
ReplyDeleteSeriously one of our favorite household games...but I'm not quite the artist you are and so we just do either numbers or colors or shapes to try and help the kidlets learn their numbers/colors/shapes/etc.
ReplyDeletewe play this game a lot too. only, i made our boardgame with photos of family members. instead of don't eat pete, we yell "don't eat your family!" the kids LOVE it!
ReplyDeletesaw this entry last week and tried it this weekend. we used teddy grahams and my two-year-old (while at times may get so excited he blurts out where pete is before my husband guesses) just LOVED it. he loved it. he loved drawing the silly faces, yelling out not to eat pete and of course getting the snacks. great idea. so easy. plan to play it at an upcoming reunion when i'll be watching several of the kids at once.
ReplyDeletesaw this entry last week and tried it this weekend. we used teddy grahams and my two-year-old (while at times may get so excited he blurts out where pete is before my husband guesses) just LOVED it. he loved it. he loved drawing the silly faces, yelling out not to eat pete and of course getting the snacks. great idea. so easy. plan to play it at an upcoming reunion when i'll be watching several of the kids at once.
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