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Why Board Games Need To Be Under Your Tree This Christmas

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What’s on your child’s wishlist for Christmas? Is it the latest video game? A DVD? A new electronic device? Technology is great fun, but what about also putting something classic, retro, and cool under the Christmas tree? Give a gift that encourages the whole family to unplug and spend quality time together during the holidays. What kind of gift does that? A board game like the ones from Winning Moves Games is an exciting hands-on gift that’ll provide hours of family fun!

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Hi, I’m Jennifer Dawn, a mother of three young children, a contributor here at 5 Minutes for Mom, and the blogger behind The Life of Jennifer Dawn. Today we’re teaming up with Winning Moves Games to share with you a few reason why board games make ideal gifts for Christmas. This post is sponsored so thank you for reading and sharing.

When I was growing up, my parents always gave my sister and me a board game at Christmas. It was the one present we were allowed to open on Christmas Eve. The rest of the presents had to wait until Christmas morning, but that board game kept us happy and occupied for the rest of that day and on countless other days and occasions that followed.

Now I’m the one buying, wrapping, and gifting board games for my own kids each Christmas. Yes, I’ve continued the tradition and have remained a BIG fan of board games through the years. My sister and I grew up playing them together. I don’t think we ever played one we didn’t love. From card games to word games, they were all fun and exciting to us.

I can say with great assurance that as kids we would have loved the game I’m about to share with you today. It’s an exciting, education game suitable for young children called Nibbled™!

Nibbled Game Contents

Nibbled™ Game for Kids

Nibbled is a fast-paced game that involves correctly guessing the colors on cards. Each player starts with the same number of fish clipped onto their clothes. Make a guess, flip a card over, and clip your fish to another player if you guess correctly. The first player to get rid of all their fish wins the game! It’s a fun, creative game that involves colors and counting.

My kids are 4-8 and it was a game they were all able to play together. My husband and I enjoyed playing too making it a perfect game for our family game nights. I love when we find a game that all ages can play and enjoy!

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Playing The Nibbled Card Game For Kids

Nibbled Game

Nibbled is just one example of a game that would make a great gift this Christmas.

Think back to your childhood. What were some of your favorite games? Whatever board game has made it to the top of your list, I know we can all agree that there are some amazing benefits to be gained from gathering together and playing games with family and friends.

6 Reasons Board Games Make Fantastic Christmas Gifts

  1. Promote Family Time
    Hosting a game night is a great way to bring the whole family together for a time of fun and laughter. If extended family members are visiting during the holidays, pull the board games out for hours of fun.
     
  2. Educational
    Many games provide opportunities to practice math and literacy skills. There is often critical thinking and strategy involved, too. They offer countless chances to learn through play.
     
  3. Foster Valuable Skills
    Sportsmanship, teamwork, fine motor, memory, and countless other skills can all be practiced and sharpened through playing board games.
     
  4. Affordable
    Those electronic gadgets on the kids’ lists might be costly, but board games certainly aren’t. For a low cost, you can purchase a gift that will provide hours upon hours of fun. Winning Moves Games has some great prices on all your favorites.
     
  5. Provide Years of Use
    Take good care of them and a board game will last for years. I still have games from when I was a child. Do you remember games like Clue, Trouble, Scattergories, and Guess Who? Those are classics that will never become outdated.
     
  6. Entertaining
     Let’s face it… Board games are just plain FUN!

Other Screen-Free Gift Ideas for Kids

Here are some more ideas for great gifts for children…

Giveaway

Would you like to win $150 worth of games from Winning Moves Games? We will draw one random winner who will be able to choose $150 worth of games from Winner Moves.

To enter to win, take a look at the Winning Moves Games site and leave us a comment letting us know a couple of games that you think your family would like the most. Then complete your entry using the entry form below. 

Sorry to our Canadian friends, this giveaway is open to the US only.

 

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Disclosure: This post is sponsored so extra thanks for reading and sharing.
Written by 5 Minutes for Mom contributor Jennifer Dawn. Jenn blogs about living a beautiful and creative life at The Life of Jennifer Dawn.

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135 Comments

  2. My family would like to play The Game of Life, Hi-Ho! Cherry O, Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders.

  4. I would love to introduce my kids to aggravation and parcheesi – 2 of my favorite board games when I was their ages.

  5. My nephew would love the game, Sunk. I never heard of it until today and it looks like a lot of fun,

  8. Looking through the games my kids would like a lot of them but for now I’ll say Candoo and Sunk look like a lot of fun and I bet my kids would enjoy those games.

  12. I’m looking forward to the advance to boardwalk game. i think our family might also enjoy pass the pig and crocodile dentist

  13. I think my family would really enjoy playing the Clue Suspect card game and Cranium Cadoo. There are a lot of games on their site that look like fun. We love playing games, so these prizes would be amazing!

  19. Rubiks Triamid and Upwords are a couple of the games I think my family would enjoy. We love board games. My teenage daughter has a game night once a month for her friends.

  29. I think my family would like the TROUBLE CLASSIC EDITION, PASS THE PIGS, and CROCODILE DENTIST. We played Trouble at a friends house and had fun, and they love animals so that’s why I chose the other 2. Thanks for hosting!

  30. We love family game nights and try to have them often! Big Boogle looks like a game we would use often. The kids also love Trouble, and could use a new one.. they have played out the one they have! Lol

  32. I think that we would like Monopoly® Advance To Boardwalk™ and Game Of The States™.

  40. My grandson loves board & card games, so I know that he would enjoy Clue, Cranium Cadoo, & Pictureka! Card Game.

  43. We love cadoo, sorry, scrabble, monopoly, clue. The girls just played twister this weekend. I never even heard of guess who until quite recently so we would like to give that a try. We would probably enjoy all of the games. There are several we don’t have and we LOVE playing games.

  45. i love monopoly so advance to boardwalk would be awesome. also pcitureka, my kids love that

  48. We love Clue the board game, so I know we would like the Clue® Suspect Card Game. Also the Tile Lock Scrabble.

  50. Our family is a fan of the classics, and we don’t have any board games of our own. Definitely Candy Land, Monopoly, Life and Payday!

  56. We’d love monopoly, scrabble and tons of the other games. This prize would allow me to buy gifts for my family, my sisters family and my friends kids. Thank you for the opportunity 💕

  59. I think Candyland and Crocodile Dentist would be a hit in my house. Hi Ho Cherry-o was one of my favorites growing up too!

  63. I think my family would really enjoy Game of the States, The Game of Life, Cranium Cadoo and Instant Insanity!

  67. Game of the States looks like a lot of fun. Good learning game. Cranium Caddoo looks like fun, also.

  69. Nibbled and the Rubiks games would definitly be a big hit. Pass the pigs would be enjoyed as well, along with This game is bonkers and crocodile dentist.

  70. The Rubiks build it, solve it would be great for our granddaughter. The Cadoo game, the This game is Bonkers, and the Guess Who (this one always a favorite but we have not had in the house for over a decade.) Love to gift the games to each of the 6 kids, 3 of which have families! Thank you!

  77. Any of the games our family would live, but Id most want Parchese, Life, and Clue. The game of the states would be great too, since we are learning state geography in our homeschool.

  79. I love No Stress Chess, and Game of States. Sunk! and Rubik’s Build It Solve It look really fun, and different. So many great games!

  82. I love the No Stress Chess, the card Clue game, the Pass the Pigs game, and the Game of the States game for our family game night!!

  83. My daughter loves to play board games! I’d like to try this Nibbled game. And, hey, they have Game of the States – I used to play that when I was little!

  86. My kids already have some of these great games like candy land and chutes and ladders, but I am so sure they would enjoy more like Moose Caboose and Uncle Wiggily! We play games often (about every other day and almost everyday in the winter months). Playing games is great to teach them about playing fair, winning/loosing and creates lots of fun family moments.

  96. Wow, I did look at their site and $159 would buy a lot of games! I would probably choose a new type of monopoly, rubik’s, cadoo,, scattergories and who knows what else.

  103. Game of the states would be great (we have been trying to teach our grandkids the songs of the states – there is always room for educating while having fun. And, Chutes and Ladders along with CandyLand are on their requested wish list. Love our family time playing board games and cards.

  106. I loved Pass the Pigs as a kid and love that they have a BIG PIGS version now! That would work great with toddlers! I also love that they have made Boggle bigger!

  109. We would really enjoy the Game of the States, the Clue card game, and Cranium Cadoo. Fingers crossed. We just love game nights!

  114. I know she would like Crocodile Dentist, Chutes and ladders and Moose Caboose. They all look like fun.

  115. I think my family would like the Clue Suspect Card Game and the Monopoly Advance To Boardwalk games.

  134. I would pick the Clue card game, the regular game was one of my favorites growing up. We always had at least one new game under our tree at Christmas when the kids were younger. Thisi is one of my favorite things to do when all my kids are home– play games.

  135. My son would LOVE the crocodile dentist game and Id love to see some of the classics like Candyland and Hi Ho Cherry-o!