What Kind Of Games Do You Play?

[CatsEye]

When you are sitting around the campfire with the kids, what kind of games do you play to keep them entertained. We play, "I see" where you say "I see something flat and black" and then we ask questions one by one until we can guess the answer. The winner is the one who gets the most points and gets to pick the next day's activity from a list we have made up. Have you ever done this?

[Qweetzy]

We've done that one but it's usually during the day and we don't have prizes. That is a good idea though. It amuses the kids and then the reward is appropriate for everyone. Good thinking!

[Grandpa]

After grandpa pops the head off a spruce grouse or ruffed grouse and cooks it up, the grandkids are all fired up for a night time snipe hunt. I make sure to enlist the aid of the older kids, assigning each of them the safety of a younger one for when the crying starts.

After positioning each of the younger ones and positioning the older ones to wait for the crying, I quietly round up the younger ones and sneak them back to camp for smores. That leaves the older ones out in the night giggleing waiting for the crying to start, which of course, doesn't happen. It usually takes 1-2 hours for the older ones to realize they were the ones sniped.

[Ranger]

We play a guessing game. We are all seated around the fire and pass around something, say a rock, while singing or playing music. When the music stops the it will then guess who's got the rock.

[Johnny]

Well, kids make games of their own and camping alone is interesting enough to keep them busy. But I like to bring a few sheets of Sudoku for me.

[ChadTower]

My kids like to poke sticks into the fire, get an ember, and make smoke trails in the air. It's a Harry Potter thing for them. They call it a Smoke-Ose spell.

They also like to practice hardening sticks. I tried smores with them but they didn't really dig marshmallows. I don't blame them. I can't do marshmallows either.

[hweiner]

I like to play 20 Questions, although we usually go over the 20 question limit haha... what you do is someone thinks of ANYTHING they want (can be person, place, tool, theory, etc. you get the point) then everyone else takes a turn asking a yes or no question until finally they come to the answer. Similar to your "I see" game but still a bit different and good to play at night when vision isn't our highest sense!

[BUUZBEE]

i take a game box, so when its not charades or 20 questions time, theres yahtzee, cards or backgammon

[outwest]

I love anything quick that you can tote (like the card games) but we sometimes end up making up the games as we go. Ghost stories are always a plus too.