You’re sure to get a lot of laughter with these silly family game night ideas. These ideas are inspired from traditional games you’re likely familiar with. My husband gave me a strange look when I told him about my Velcro patch idea…more on that one in just a moment!
Family Game Night Ideas:
Human Tic-Tac-Toe: You’ll need 2 groups of at least 3 people for this game. Create a tic-tac-toe playing board on the ground using painters tape (it removes easily without leaving a sticky residue). Each team takes a turn having one player stand in a square of the playing board. As team members choose a square, they must hold the hand of their other team member – this helps to see when a tic-tac-toe winning line is forming.The goal of tic-tac-toe is to create a winning line of 3 team members in a row. 
Hungry Hippos: This is an easy game to set up. For this game you’ll need plenty of balloons and either 2 small hockey nets or two laundry baskets. Players will compete against each other to quickly get more balloons in their net than the other player. 
Clue Mystery Game: Check out this mystery party post to find easy ways to set up secret clues around your home like glow in the dark messages, secret clues requiring the use of a magnifying glass and more.
Barrel of Monkeys: When I first told me husband about this game, he gave me a strange look but I promised him it would be fun. What you’ll need for this game is a plain t-shirt, some sticky Velcro pads, and some small/light stuffed animals. Place some sticky Velcro pads on various areas of the shirt then place the other portion of the Velcro pads on some stuffed animals. The goal of this game is to roll around the ground to try to stick as many stuffed animals to the Velcro pads on the shirt as possible – without using your hands. It was inspired by the Barrel of Monkeys game…but I guess it’s quite different than the actual game. Oh well, it was still funny watching my husband roll around the ground trying to attach stuffed animals to his shirt. 
What are your favorite family game night ideas?
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those are some great ideas – i always think about board games when I hear family game night
Oh those sound like fun!! Your hubs is a good sport. 🙂 My kiddos would love thr tic tac toe game. I have a slumber party full of 10 year olds coming up…. we may try this out.
These are some great ideas! I am like Ashely, and stuck in the board game rut. Yet, there are so many other fun games to play.
These are great! You always have great ideas!!!
What great ideas! My family would have so much fun doing this. I want to do regular family game nights and you have inspired me to get on it! Thanks!
I love the hungry hippos idea. My kids are young, so board games don’t really work for them. This would be really fun! Thanks for the ideas.
I must have missed the Clue Mystery game when you posted it. So glad you reposted, I love the board game and excited to try this one out!!
Love these game ideas! My kids are at an age where they’re really getting into games and we love playing them as a family 🙂
love the game ideas… and we tend to love board games here as well as we are big skip bo fans!
We’re totally board game peeps too. I like your ideas for bringing some of these classic games alive, and getting a bit of exercise in the process! Oh, and your husband’s a good sport too!! 😉