Win It: $40 for Family Game Night (Now Closed)

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Congratulations to commenter #8, Shelly,  who said: 

“Love to play Sequence or golf, a card game”

 game-night

With cooler weather and shorter days upon us, our evening family trips to the park will become few and far between. So naturally, it is time to seek some frugal alternatives for family time.  A trip to the movies for this family of 6 is just not an option.

A night in with a favorite board game, snacks and a DVD is much more frugal; plus a great way to establish a family tradition.

To help families across the country make special memories, Walmart has teamed up with Hasbro and created Family Game Night Centers, perfect for helping you put together your own Family Game Night for under $40. Look for these special aisles now in your local Walmart.

Walmart challenged the ElevenMoms to create our very own theme night for $40 or less. Some ideas include:

  • Rock n’Roll Night—Turn your living room into a 50’s diner for Rock n’ Roll Night. The family could play include Twister, watch one of the two High School Musical movies, pull out those old tunes and serve diner themed foods like milk shakes and classic hot dogs.
  • Double Trouble Night—Turn family night into trouble fun by playing the infamous Trouble game and bending the rules such as eating with your fingers. Then relax around the TV to watch your favorite Pirates of the Caribbean movie and see how everyone’s favorite pirates get in and out of trouble
  • Special Mission Night—This night is about solving puzzle and using your smarts to uncover a mystery. Create or solve puzzles, play Pictureka and consider adding in a movie like National Treasure. Secret receipts of creative snacks might also be revealed!
  • Day of the Week Family Night Kit—For a Sweet Tooth Sunday: Candyland as well as the sugary sweet movie Pollyanna along soda and makings for a homemade ice cream sundaes.

The hard part will be agreeing on just one game! With both school-aged and preschool-aged children, this can be a challenge. Sara plays a mean game of Sorry, while I prefer Apples to Apples. My competitive hubby dominates any game of Scrabble, so I don’t even attempt to play that. Perhaps we will settle for the game of Life. 🙂

The best part is that once you invest $40 in these family game night supplies, you can use them again and again! And that is frugal.

One lucky reader will win a $40 Walmart Gift Card to create your own Family Game Night!  This is a quick, one day giveaway, so be sure to enter now.

For a chance to win:

1. Leave a comment below sharing your favorite family board game or family night activity (initial entry) If you are reading via email or in a reader, please click through to the post to enter.

For Bonus Entries (leave a separate comment for each):

2. If you are a subscriber or follower (thank you!), leave a separate comment. You may subscribe for free updates via RSS or email and leave a comment telling me you have done so.

3. For a third entry, share this giveaway on Facebook or Twitter

This contest will close on Wednesday, September 23rd, at 11pm CST. The winner will be selected by random.org and contacted via email. Contest open to US residents only.

Good luck, and thank you for entering!

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Comments

  1. CaseyDeuce says

    My daughter is a huge fan of go fish, and that’s always played first, then we move on to candy land, connect 4 and guess who!!
    .-= CaseyDeuce´s last blog ..Organizational Love for Stuck On You! =-.

  3. Cortney @ evanhaslanded says

    Before kids my hubs and I loved played yahtzee or scrabble but now my son is getting old enough to play games so I can’t wait to get Chutes n’ Ladders for him! I am all about Family Fun Night!!
    .-= Cortney @ evanhaslanded´s last blog ..Ask the Teacher Tuesday – Parent Teacher Conferences =-.

  5. Christina says

    My favorite game is Apples to Apples. It’s so fun to play with the whole family! We like to make nachos and play. 🙂
    .-= Christina´s last blog ..Free Museum Day Sept. 26th =-.

  7. Lizindsm says

    It’s Apple to Apples is an instant winner!
    .-= Lizindsm´s last blog ..Feature Friday: KT Jean Designs =-.

  9. says

    My mom and I love to play scrabble! She wins all the time…lol. Even when she’s trying to let me win! So sad!

    I read through a reader on igoogle

    thanks for hosting this!
    .-= Lori´s last blog ..Coupon Organizer Styler FREE SHIPPING =-.

  17. Melissa says

    We love Uno! The girls just love giving me the draw 2s and I love that they can work on their numbers/colors.

  31. Amy says

    My son is a huge fan of Candy Land. It’s the only thing that will keep his attention for more than 5 minutes!

  32. Sarah says

    Our favorite family night is to play Sorry Express, and to rent a free movie from redbox, pop popcorn and snuggle on the sofa together. My daughter loves to sit right in between us!

  33. chooselifegail says

    With cooler weather we cant wait to make a big pot of chili and of course fritos and I make some hot apple cider and apple crisp for during the game. This is a fall tradition at our house then we get out the fall decorations and stuff the family scarecrow for the yard together we just use an old pair of oeralls and plaid shirt and put newspaper in the body and straw out his arms and legs and many years ago carved a styrofome pumpkin head with a big straw hat. he sits on the from porch for the season. then we all play a game together called hand and foot .It is a card game that takes 5 decks of cards and is a family favorite. My kids still come home from college for fall break just so we can have this family night of fun together. I am a feed subscriber and have posted this link on my facebook page as well thanks

  35. alison says

    Skip Bo is a family favorite because almost everyone (except the 2-year-old) can play. And we love playing BoomBlox on Wii together too.

  57. Kim says

    We just did a family night last night, after dinner I made some microwave cooked apples and topped it with some oatmeal crunchies. Then we worked on a Disney puzzle all together. Its definitely a learning experience for me! I am such a crazy neatnick, I sorted all the pieces into piles by color. Then I had to NOT freak out when Rachael swept all the piles back together. I think I’m learning more from them than they do from me!!!

  63. Grace Dugas says

    Our kids love it when we all make a big pallet on the living room floor and eat popcorn and watch a movie together. They say they love it when they can sleep with mom and dad.

  65. Heather says

    Right now our favorite board game is Simpsons Clue – So funny! We also love our weekly Friday Night Family Movie!

  69. says

    My three kids and I love to spend time playing a card game called Hand & Foot, a form of Canasta. My kids are 9, 11, & 12 and the older two are boys. They especially love it when I take them one at a time to play at grandma’s house. My mom and sister and I play every saturday.

    Other games we love are monopoly and sequence.
    .-= KandiSue´s last blog ..I’m Back,,,,, =-.

  73. Andrea T. says

    Our favorite family night is being around our firepit, chatting and making smores. DD is 2 1/2 so we play memory and do many puzzles together. We also love to put in a movie for DD and all cuddle on the floor with a bowl of popcorn.

  74. Mari says

    My 4yr old loves to play games. Her current favorites are checkers, yahtzee and candyland. I think I have played more games of Candyland than any other game in my life.

  75. denise says

    My kids are grown, but when they come home, we love Balderdash word game…..popcorn and soda….lots of laughs

  93. Maria Rocco says

    Our Family night is Fall. We bought a pumkin, cooked it and made a pie. The kids wore their costums. We made cookies and drew Halloween pictures to see what was the scary ones. We read some Scary stories (not real scary 6,4 yr olds.) Then we played a game of freeze tag on the way to a bubble bath and bed. All fell asleep except Mom who had to clean up 🙂

  100. Kimber says

    Mu husband and I love to play Phase 10. Classic! I would also really enjoy buying Life. Thanks for the giveaway!

  101. says

    Our favorite is a family card game called “Hand and Foot” – I had never heard of it until I married my hubby and now I look forward to every time we play!
    .-= Brook´s last blog ..VocalPoint =-.

  111. Elizabeth Speights says

    We love the game Clue at our house! We are also big fans of catch phrase, lots of hilarity ensues!

  119. says

    My OLDEST is 3, so we havce just instituted Sundays as family days, and Sunday night is our family devo night. We love it, sharing God’s word, and helping our two little ones to understand the importance of it in our lives. 🙂 We are currently playing with bible story matching cards we got at Mardel, and she loves it!
    .-= Misty Newsome´s last blog ..Free food and free crafts =-.

  133. says

    My favorite game is Scrabble. We love to snack while playing games, but they have to be ‘clean’ snacks so you don’t soil all of the pieces or consumed during a break.

  137. Angel S. says

    I love Outburst, but our family favorite is Blokus. Nothing like game night to bring a family closer!

  143. Stacy says

    Its just my hubby and I, but we love board games, mostly eurogames. Our favorite right now is Race for the Galaxy.

  152. Gerrie says

    My family recently found the game Farkle and we love it!! We also like to play Phase 10, UNO and Rummicub.

  155. Holly Urbanek says

    Although Pretty Pretty Princess was a favorite for a long time, the current family favorite is Star Wars Trivial Pursuit. Lia always answers Yoda or Anakin, not matter what the question is! 🙂

  157. AngiesDesk says

    We love games! We seem to have the most fun with the older ones. Twister can make us laugh so hard and enjoy being silly together!

  158. Jen U says

    We love playing Candy Land and Memory with our 4 year old! For the grown ups, Euchre and Cribbage are the favorites.

  159. chrissyb says

    My family LOVES game night we useally cook a nice dinner together, eat at the table, talk about our day, make plans for the weekend, and then we’ll play either Pictureka or Trouble. I like the idea of adding a theme movie!

  161. Tracy says

    I found the “Family Edition” of Trivia Pursuit (at Goodwill for $3.99)…….there are a set of question cards for kids and another set for adults. On our family game night we make our own personal pizzas and play. The kids love playing it and don’t even realize they are learning at the same time.

  162. says

    The boys are still young so family night hasn’t really gotten to the game phase quiet yet. What we do for family fun is drag out the baskets of Mega Blocks and we build. We build houses, skyscrapers, steps, whatever little hearts desire. Sometimes we simply build something up to be able to knock it down and watch it break apart.
    .-= Linda Stewart´s last blog ..Kicked Out of Early Headstart =-.

  170. Gloria Brown says

    My daughter keeps pestering us to play chess and she’s 7! We usually talk her into Battleship!

  173. Krista Lyle says

    We love movies nights and game nights. Right now we are big on UNo but would love to expand to some different games now that kids are older…Clue, Jenga, Boggle.

  176. Caitlin E. says

    We love to play Life and Blockus. And for the adults, Cribbage or we recently started playing Bonanza! (very fun)

  180. Amy says

    We love to play all kinds of games that my preschooler chooses! She currently loves to play checkers and Scrabble Jr. that we bought at a yard sale last week! Thanks!

  186. Margaret B says

    Our favorite game to play is Last Word. It is so much fun and has provided us with hours of entertainment!

  191. Jody Stock says

    Our family loves Sorry! and Trouble…still working on Scrabble, as my kids don’t spell the best. 🙂 I really like the idea of a theme night!

  207. Brandi says

    We are just beginning to play games with our two year old son…he understands some of the simpler ones. We have the game Memory that we have just introduced him to. Our family always has game nights at the holidays when we are all together. Rook, scattergories, cranium, and balderdash are favorites but we can always use new games. 🙂

  226. Kristin says

    We love to set up a tent in our family room using our couches and pillows and blankets and then watch a movie or play trouble or uno! We also love the game bananagrams, which is a great one for little ones learning how to read and spell.

  227. says

    Our favorite family game night game is the Here and Now: World Edition of Monopoly. My kids love using the credit card machine. We also enjoy a good game of Sorry.
    .-= Tammy´s last blog ..Menu Addition =-.

  230. Beth says

    Our family favorite is Yahtzee. My youngest two children are 9 and 11 so we can all play together and have a lot of fun trying to beat each other’s score.

  236. Kirsty says

    My favorite family board game was “Sorry”. Remember that one? We would all sit around the table playing this game on Saturday nights for hours. After having a great dinner that mom made us. My younger brother and I would just love to yell out SORRY!!!!! To my dad who usually was the one that lost while playing the game.

  237. Holly R. says

    We’ve had game night since my daughter was 2 and she’s now 16 and we still do it. We take turns picking games, so everyone gets to pick their favorites. We all usually help make dinner, whoever picks the game, gets to choose what’s for dinner. I love game night!!!! I’d love to have some new games ;^)

  240. sspence says

    Our favorite family game night always consists of UNO and puzzles. I have a 6 and a 2 year old. This seems to be a good combination of games for us!

  245. Justine says

    I’m a big fan of Phase 10. Now they have a dice version, but I prefer the original card game.
    I also really like family reading nights – sometimes we all read separate books in the same room, or sometimes we read a book (or series, like Chronicles of Narnia) together, taking turns reading out loud.

  248. Cindy says

    Our favorite game right now (small kids) is Captain Bones’ Treasure Chest. Awesome game for young ones.

  252. kirsten says

    My favorite board game memory from childhood was a game (I don’t recall the name) but it had obscure words that you either had to know the meaning of or you made up different meanings to trick your opponents. One time my brother made up a meaning for blenaphobia (which I think meant fear of blending into your surroundings) his was much more shocking: fear of having one’s hand stuck in a blender. My father always ended up in fits of laughter!

  254. says

    Can’t beat a good game of Uno–any number can play and you never know which family member is going to have to draw half the stack while the rest of us laugh in shear delight!

  262. Wendy Cameron says

    My son’s finally old enough for Candy Land and Chutes N Ladders, but we love doing puzzles even more.