No More Rainy Day Blues with Mattel Games

There’s nothing like rain to ruin a summer day, but it doesn’t have to end all of the fun. Rainy days and nights are just times when you have to get a little more creative with your fun strategy and one of our favourites is a good old fashion game night! If you have a covered porch area, it’s really fun to stay outdoors and set up a game night in the great outdoors. It feels just like camping, as long as it’s not a full on storm out there of course! Get in your jammies, bring out some snacks and drinks and wrap yourself up in a big blanket to start the fun!


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Here are some other ideas to ensure your family game nights are a hit!

Prepare Your Space – Transform your everyday living room into the ultimate game room! This can be as easy as ensuring there are enough cozy seats for everyone who is playing, turning on background music that is upbeat but not distracting and setting up a variety of delicious snacks. These small changes will show your little ones that you’re taking the game night, and family time, seriously.

Play a variety of games – While some people have a preference for particular games, others may want to change it up. Designate a set amount of time that you will play each game to ensure you’re keeping everyone entertained and allowing people to try their hand at something new.

Disconnect to Connect – While it may be difficult, make a rule that no one is allowed to have any technology during the few hours you have together. This includes no television or cell phones as they may take away from the moments you’re sharing with your loved ones. By disconnecting from technology, you will be able to better connect with your family members.

 

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Comments

  1. Michelle K says

    Monopoly

  2. My favorite board game is Monopoly

  3. Lynda Cook says

    That would have to be Monopoly, it’s a family favourite!!

  4. Settlers of Catan

  5. Anne Taylor says

    Trivial Pursuit!

  6. Carole Dube says

    Monopoly!

  7. Rosanne Robinson says

    Monopoly is my favourite board game. 🙂

  8. SweetPanda says

    My favourite is Monopoly

  9. My favorite board game is The Game of Life!

  10. Susan Patterson says

    My best board game is monopoly and I have been playing it with my grandchildren all week! Thank you!

  11. We love Monopoly 🙂

  12. Right now we are playing a lot of junior monopoly and candyland

  13. Jennifer P. says

    My favourite board game is Monopoly. When I was a kid my favourite was The Game of Life.

  14. Lisa Williams says

    My favorite board game is Mancala,my daughter plays it a lot and got me hooked on it.

  15. My kids love monopoly

  16. I love Monopoly

  17. Valerie Mallette says

    My favourite board game is Clue.

  18. my favourite is Stock Ticker

  19. I like Trivial Pursuit.

  20. Doodle Quest

  21. I grew up playing board games, so I passed on this tradition and my daughter loves board games too. Uno is a fave of ours!

  22. I don’t think I can narrow it down to just one! I really love Uno, Sorry, Life and Payday.

  23. Deanna Carney says

    Sequence

  24. C McLaren says

    My favourite board game is The Game of Life.

  25. My favorite board game is Monopoly.

  26. Judy Cowan says

    My favourite board game is Monopoly followed closely by Scrabble.

  27. I enjoy Apples to Apples

  28. Sunshine G says

    Scrabble!

  29. Karla Sceviour says

    I love playing Battleshiop

  30. My favorite board game is Monopoly

  31. I LOVE Monopoly!

  32. Holly MacRitchie says

    My favourite board game is The Game of Life

  33. My favourite is UNO.

  34. We always loved to play Sorry!

  35. Pay Day and Monopoly were my faves.

  36. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    It varies but at the moment it’s Sequence 🙂

  37. I love Monopoly

  38. Monopoly is my favourite board game of all time.

  39. Jeanette Jackson says

    Clue is my favorite.

  40. Tricia Hope says

    My all time fav is scrabble,but I love introducing new games to my grand children

  41. Monopoly!

  42. monopoly

  43. nicolthepickle says

    I like Settlers of Catan.

  44. My favourite is Monopoly.

  45. Carol Denny says

    My favorite is Trivial Pursuit!

  46. Treen Goodwin says

    we love Monopoly , we have game night one a week with the kids and my grandson ! so much fun and great quality time 🙂

  47. Florence C says

    My favourite board game to play is Clue.

  48. I like farkle dice game

  49. Mousetrap!

  50. Cards would be Apples to Apples it is lots of fun, now for a boardgame is Sequence. Also love Taboo, love playing games with the family.

  51. My favourite board game is Monoply! It never gets old!!

  52. Trivial Pursuit.

  53. I love Scrabble.

  54. andrea amy says

    I love the GAme of Life

  55. Gillian Morgan says

    My favourite board game is monopoly.

  56. I like to play scrabble.

  57. Scrabble I adore……battleship with my boy is a close second.

  58. Love to play Monopoly!

  59. Ashley Jordan says

    Ever heard if Balderdash? Freakin hilarious!

  60. Kristi Renout says

    Monopoly is the game to play right now in our house.

  61. Joanne Saunders says

    Mine is/was Battle Ship or Backgammon. I have not played either one in years, but I remember I loved playing them as a kid. Especially Battle Ship. My brother and I played that game for days. I have fond memories of it.

  62. Angela Mitchell says

    My favourite board game is called Dixit.

  63. Jaime Brown says

    I really like to play Madgab, it is so fun to try and sound out the parts of the saying. We always end up laughing?

  64. A good ol game of Monopoloy always puts us in a good mood!

  65. Carol Denny says

    Mine is Trivial Pursuit

  66. Tammy Dalley says

    I love scattergories!

  67. I’m a geek – I love scrabble

  68. I like The Game Of Life

  69. robyn Paris says

    I enjoy monopoly the most.

  70. Nicole Jubleew says

    Sorry is our favourite board game.

  71. Judy Thuy Duong says

    My favorite board game is Monopoly!

  72. Kathleen Roffey says

    sorry

  73. Amy Heffernan says

    We love to play monopoly!!

  74. Sarah Stickney says

    i like scrabble

  75. LILLIAN BROWN says

    favorite board game is Monopoly

  76. My favourite board game is Monopoly! My strategy never loses!

  77. Linda Fast says

    My fav game is Boggle

  78. Carol Ann Westbook says

    MONOPOLY

  79. Marlene V says

    Game of Life

  80. I’ve always enjoyed Monopoly

  81. Sandi Tymchuk says

    I liked Clue quite a bit, and also the Game of Life and Monopoly.

  82. Theresa A says

    Scrabble!

  83. Edith Rennes says

    Monoply has always been a favourite

  84. Audrey Skinner says

    The original Trivia Pursuit is my favorite board game.

  85. I have always loved board games; all kinds of board games… My favourites have always been Monopoly, Risk, Pictionary, Clue, Trivial Pursuit, Ticket to Ride, etc. etc. We always have a game night with family and friends once a month. Its a great way to connect and just spend time laughing.

  86. Brittney House says

    I liked playing boggle.

  87. Judy van Ryn says

    I really enjoy playing Monopoly

  88. Roger Simmons says

    UNO

  89. Monopoly!

  90. Robyn Bellefleur says

    My favorite game is Scrabble.

  91. Monopoly!

  92. I enjoy scrabble

  93. We love Monopoly.

  94. Dale Steele Nicolov says

    I like Monopoly!

  95. Monopoly

  96. I really like PayDay! 😀

  97. Martin Keating says

    Monopoly is my fav

  98. As a child I loved Frustration and Monopoly!

  99. Apples to Apples!

  100. aarone mawdsley says

    monopoly is my favorite board game

  101. Does Dutch Blitz count? 🙂

  102. Aggrevation

  103. I love RISK 🙂

  104. Rachael Bhardwaj says

    my favourite is monopoly.

  105. victoria W says

    I have some great memories playing Apples to Apples

  106. krystyl olson says

    I love Quelf! great fun for family OR a laugh riot adult BBQ or girls night 😉

  107. Alexa Nernberg says

    My all time favorite board game is Uno . Thanks for sponsoring this fun giveaway and for the opportunity to participate.

  108. Nancy Parsons says

    My familys favourite it monopoly.

  109. Kristina Ziegler says

    Sequence

  110. Anyone remember Poleconomy? I can’t remember how to play it anymore but remember loving it when I was a teen/young adult.

    Besos, Sarah
    Journeys of The Zoo

  111. Kimberley Buckton says

    I love playing the old school game of TROUBLE!

  112. I love scrabble & trival pursuit

  113. I’m a Monopoly fan. We even have the kids version so my son can play, and love, it too.

  114. Scrabble is my all-time favourite board game.

  115. I am in love with Settlers of Catan!

  116. Chess

  117. I love playing Clue.

  118. FREDERIC BROWN says

    Monopoly is my favourite board game

  119. Jennifer L. says

    I love Clue.

  120. Kim Tanti says

    My favourite game is pituitary.

  121. Taylor Hawkins says

    Trivial Pursuit but my hubby hates it bc I always beat him 😛

  122. Sarah Smart says

    I always loved CandyLand !

  123. Risk is a favorite!

  124. We like Monopoluy

  125. Wanda Tracey says

    My favorite game is Pictionary.It’s so fun!

  126. Nicole Tidman says

    Apples to apples!

  127. My favourite board game is Sorry 🙂

  128. My favorite board game of all time is Scrabble. It’s a lot of fun.

  129. Nate Fuller says

    My favorite is Scrabble!

  130. Kate Hearn says

    I love the Game of Life and Risk

  131. Marina M. says

    Scrabble.

  132. Apples to Apples – a game my kids and their friends have played to the point the cards are warn out!

  133. We enjoy Uno and Rummy

  134. Monica Miller says

    We love Pandemic because it’s easy to understand and it’s cooperative 🙂

  135. Jared S Denison says

    My favorite board game is Sorry.

  136. Elaine Buonsante says

    My favourite board game is Cranium or Trivial Pursuit.

  137. Monopoly is my fave.

  138. Christine Treece says

    Clue!

  139. Erika Letson says

    In our house we love Uno! The whole family can play and it can get pretty crazy!

  140. Susan Chester says

    I love a word game called Rummicube.

  141. I like playing backgammon.

  142. I loved playing Monopoly when I was growing up. Right now my 2 girls love Mancala.

  143. melissa Resnick says

    i LOVE Yatzzee

  144. Kelley Moore says

    Monopoly

  145. I love monopoly!

  146. Scrabble!

  147. kathy downey says

    Monopoly, it’s our favourite!

  148. I love Boggle!

  149. That’s a hard one…I love board games, all of them! But scrabble might just be my absolute favourite!

  150. chickie brewer says

    I would have to choose Monopoly as my favorite game!

  151. Monopoly is my favourite game!

  152. Fav game is monopoly deal

  153. Scrabble

  154. Victoria Ess says

    Monopoly is my favourite board game.

  155. Judy Hunting says

    I love the game of Life

  156. Stephanie Galbraith says

    We love to play Monopoly.

  157. Amy Deeter says

    my favorite game is sequence. my whole family loves that game

  158. We love playing UNO. It is a great family game!

  159. EMMA L HORTON says

    I LIKE CHECKERS

  160. Scrabble is my favorite!

  161. Shawna Chapman says

    I absolutely love SCRABBLE….UNO is a close second! 😀

  162. Holly OGorman says

    My favorite is Monopoly.

  163. Kim Stenner says

    Scrabble. Definitely Scrabble

  164. we love to play monopoly

  165. Erica Seaman says

    We love to play Clue 🙂

  166. I am a big Scrabble fan.

  167. Kevin Southgate says

    Monopoly

  168. Monopoly

  169. Colleen Rose says

    Scrabble addict here, We have the original old game love,it

  170. The game of LIfe.

  171. Sorry

  172. lynn clayton says

    Monopoly for sure

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