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Contest, Family, Family Adventures, Toys

Playing Classic Games and Talking Christmas Traditions

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Playing games as a family

We received a set of classic toys from Catholic Central for sponsorship of this blog post. Catholic Central also is providing another set of toys for us to give away to you.

With Christmas less than two weeks away at this point let’s talk Christmas traditions. Growing up Catholic and also raising our kids in the Catholic tradition we certainly have many traditions centered around Christmas. Each year we go to the Christmas Eve vigil or midnight masses at our church. We also have family to our home to share a meal on Christmas Eve.

One of the traditions that I have been excited to do every year is our annual toy collection and donation to Christmas is for Kids. This is something that we have done for ten years. We involve the kids in this project because understanding that helping people however we can is important. So, we save money each month to do a special shopping trip where the kids decide what toys to get for the donations. Toys and Christmas go hand in hand for us so it made the most sense that our charity of choice to work with provides toys to local children each Christmas.

At Christmas is for Kids

Once we go on our shopping trip together and drop off the toys we go to a local shrine called La Salette to see the Christmas lights and then hit Bliss Bros. Dairy for dinner. While we have been collecting the toys and donating them for 10 years it has only been the last 7 or so years that we’ve added in the La Salette and Bliss night. It is one of my favorite things about the Christmas season.

Eva by the lights

We love toys and games, too. We receive so many toys and games to review. However, sometimes we have the most fun doing silly simple games together. Catholic Central put together these Christmas Fun in 5 Minutes games to play and you don’t need much to do them. Just download the .pdf file and you can start playing silly fun games as you prepare for your own Christmas traditions. It also includes some cool facts about the “whys” and history behind some of the most time-honored Christmas traditions!

Christmas Fun in 5 Minutes

If you are interested in additional classic games then you can enter my giveaway below. Catholic Central is providing us with games for you to enjoy with your family. Use the Rafflecopter widget below.

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Family, Photo-A-Day, Review, Toys

An Amazing Family Game Day With The Mazins

The MAzins
Photo-A-Day #4593

We received the game THE MAZINS free from Toysmith to play with and review. Opinions are our own.

Allison and the kids had a half day today. Because of this Andrew declared that today would be a day for family games. He loves playing all sorts of games. One of the games that we tried out was a new one to us called THE MAZINS. This is a cute and pretty simple game. We played several rounds and Andrew was excellent at the game. He could quickly figure out which character got to the correct attraction.

The official description of the game is below.

THE MAZINS
The Mazin family is on an exciting trip to the city to see and do marvelous things. Help family members find attractions around town to win trophies- a quick roll of the die determines where they’ll go next! Help kids develop focus along with hand/eye coordination and speed. The multiple play levels fit to adjust to different age groups perfect for the whole family. Suitable for ages 3-99, 1-5 players, and each round takes 10-20 minutes.

Set includes maze tiles, destination tokens, point tokens, and large wooden dice.

MSRP: $19.99 | Ages 3 to 99-Years-Old

We enjoyed this game very much. It was one that the whole family could enjoy and we could make it more challenging. To make it more challenging you add additional tiles to the maze, each new tile ultimately changes which attraction the each family member visits. So, you can’t simply memorize where each family member goes, you have to think quickly and figure out the mazes to win at THE MAZINS. You can purchase the game through our Amazon.com affiliate link below.