Thanksgiving Gatherings
Everyone benefits from purposeful intergenerational relationships. The gathering of family and friends to share a meal at Thanksgiving traditionally involves multiple generations. What better time to share activities that nurture connections among different age groups?
PlayopolisToys serves the citizens of play. Those children and adults who delight in entertaining themselves with engaging activities. That’s what play is. Younger and older citizens having fun together forms bonds that enrich everyone involved. Opportunities abound. Take a walk. Share stories, Read a favorite book aloud. Create something. Play a board game, preferably a non-competitive one. Or go on a treasure hunt while sitting together on the sofa.
Cooperative Games Foster Teamwork
Cooperative games require players to work together toward a common goal. By putting aside competition and working cooperatively, everyone comes away with positive feelings. Non-readers and readers. Preschoolers and high schoolers. Parents and grandparents can enjoy playing a game together. Team work leads everyone to success. Moreover no one leaves the game gloating or feeling like a loser.
Megana Hosein, a mother of four, is enthusiastic about the value of cooperative board games. She “loves how board games encourage interacting and thinking with children in a way that is rarely explored in our busy lives. I am always amazed to hear what they have to say about solving dilemmas within the game. This taps into greater topics of conversation that might otherwise have gone unrealized. Furthermore my children can easily make new friends over the commonality and cooperation in a board game, both with peers and adults. Truly a gentle way to introduce social rules. And simultaneously focus the active child while drawing out the shy one.” Consider cooperative games for those times when kids of different ages and abilities as well as kids and adults want to play together.
Thwart Stink Bugs
Ever thought about hiding bugs under a rug before stink bugs show up and stink up the place? That’s the challenges players face with Snug As A Bug in A Rug. One of more than two dozen fun-for-all-to-play cooperative games by Peaceable Kingdom.
With three levels of play, these skills-building games grow as players become more proficient. Create a team to solve these problems. Two players will do, but there’s room for more. Designed to be played in 15 minutes, these games offer a quick solution to the challenge of keeping the peace before and after Thanksgiving dinner.
Search for Treasure
Find It games, theme-based treasure hunts in sealed clear cylinders, also invite intergenerational searches. Moreover these Contained Adventures offer both cooperative and competitive ways to play. Imagine more than 40 tiny objects hidden among brightly colored plastic pellets. Color coordinated plastic caps seal the tube. The top one lists all the objects hidden inside. In addition, a tear-off pad helps players keep track of found objects. What’s more, every game contains an elusive hidden penny. Whether Original or Kids. Or the specific interest At the Beach and Glitz and Glamour, a shiny penny awaits discovery.
PlayopolisToys – for the diverse needs of the citizens of play
