Family Game Night Stocking Stuffers Gift Guide
on Nov 23, 2016, Updated Jan 19, 2022
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If you’re looking for ideas for fun family game night stocking stuffers, you’ve come to to right place. All of these game ideas are affordable and fun. Plus, they’re easy to learn!
Family Game Night Stocking Stuffers Gift Guide
Family game nights are great ways to connect with your kids and have a little fun as a family. In our multi-age family it is sometimes hard for all of us to come together to have a great time. But we all love these games and when we pull them out, the laughs and family fun begins.
Here are a few of our favorite little games – games that will make perfect stocking stuffers for your family – and rest assured, the learning curve is very small on these games. It won’t take you long at all to learn the rules for any of these games.
Ruckus
We’ve had this game for a while. It’s a really easy game that all of my kids can play. It’s a fast-paced card game with very little reading ability required. This game claims to be for 8+, but my 5 year old played it quite successfully as well.
Happy Salmon
We just got this game over the weekend at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair and everyone loved it. Be forewarned, this game gets pretty loud {unless you play the silent version}, and you have to play it standing up because you need to be able to move around. It’s another game that’s really easy for kids of all ages – very little reading ability is needed to play this game. It claims to be for ages 6+, but I think younger kids can play it too as long as they can figure out the four different cards, pictured above.
Dutch Bliss makes a great family game night stocking stuffer
We learned about the card game Dutch Bliss a few years ago when we were visiting our dear friends in Florida. Dutch Bliss is a rowdy card game that requires strategy, speed, and a little luck. We love this game because if you get the expansion pack, there are enough cards for up to eight people to play! That’s a must in our oversized family. Learn more about Dutch Bliss here.
Dos is another favorite stocking stuffer to support family game night.
Made by the makers of Uno, DOS is similar but with a twist. My kids love this quick card game that also reinforces math skills! Dos works well with 2 -4 players and our family has really enjoyed playing it! Learn more about Dos here.
Sushi Go
Another fun easy card game is Sushi Go. This is a game of strategy that is never the same twice. My girls love playing this game that we learned about from my sister. It’s a family favorite for her two boys as well!
Show me the Kwan
A fun and educational game that we also learned about at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair. This game is a fast-paced, dice rolling, word game that can help with vocabulary, phonics, and spelling. This game is for ages 10+, but I think younger kids can play also if you scale the game down and there are several easy ways to scale it.
IQ XOXO
This is single person brain game that we saw in Chicago. I don’t actually have one, but we played with it there and it looks like a lot of fun and a great way to work some logic practice into your day. It’s also magnetic so it’s fantastic for road tripping! For ages 6+ which I think is pretty accurate.
Scrabble Slam Cards
I picked this game up at ALDI last year and we really like it and take it on road trips with us. It’s an easy card game version of Scrabble that builds vocabulary and spelling. this game does require a little more ability than some of the others I’ve listed here, as some spelling ability is very helpful. 🙂 This game is for ages 8+ and that’s probably about right. If younger kids are good spellers, they might be able to play too.
Junior Difference Board Game
This easy game is about spotting the difference on cards. It’s a speed game to see who can find the differences first. My younger two daughters really like this game a lot. It’s for ages 4+ and that’s about right!
Who doesn’t like Mad Libs? They were some of my favorite activities when I was younger and are another fun way to work on vocabulary and spelling. For just a few dollars each, Mad Libs are great additions to kids’ stockings and a fun way to spend a few minutes together as a family.
Professor Noggins Trivia Card Games – Outer Space
Trivia games are always a fun way to sneak in some education, and Professor Noggins sells many different versions of their trivia games from cards on Outer Space to the History of Art to US Presidents. You’re sure to find something interesting and educational to slip in your kids’ stockings from Professor Noggins.
ThinkFun Fifteen Puzzle
This is really a one-person game, but my eight year old loves it! You might remember them from your childhood – it’s just ordering the numbers correctly. They’re great little brain teasers and fit really nicely in a stocking.
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I would enjoy the Walking Dinosaur Toy TG636
I would enjoy playing the SET Dice Game
I would also enjoy the 51st State Master Set Board Game
I would also like the Gigamic Katamino Game
We would like to play Show Me the Kwan game with our family.
We would like to play the Happy Party game too.
We would enjoy playing the Slam Card Game.
The Gloobz game also sounds like fun!
I would love to play with and wagers family edition at Sunday dinner!
Wit’s and wagers, that is.
The just add milk science and art kit by griddly games is really cool!
The color pop board game by Gigamic would be a huge hit Sundays too!
The splash attack cube board game looks like a lot of fun too!
Dr.Eureka looks like fun!
Difference Junior looks like something I’d enjoy playing with my toddler. 🙂
We still like the classic games like Yahtzee but I’d also like to try the fun looking Dr Eureka Speed Logic Game.
We’d also enjoy the Halli Galli game as well. That’s a new one for us.
The Gas Out Game looks like something my kids would play while giggling up a storm.
We love board games the Islebound Board Game also looks like lots of fun to play too.
We love work games too and also would enjoy Griddly Games Words of the Wise. It’s not too expensive either so this would be a hit with the family.
I like playing games with family, because it engages everyone to connect and have a good time.
We love to find time to play games. At home we stick with classics like monopoly or Life. When traveling–we tend to do individual time which is why I would love the Thinkfun puzzle and IW X/O game! But the Scrabble slam looks like a fun family game to take on the road….and Kwan at home! Okay! I liked them all! 😉
My family enjoys the Slam Card game.
Not sure why so many of the comments have my name, when I didn’t make the comment. So weird!! But, uh, we’d like to try the One Happy Salmon game as a family.
My grand kids need to learn about the way games use to be played with out a tv/phone/table/ etc. this would be so nice to have.
My kids would enjoy these games. We really enjoy playing Yahtzee and Monopoly!
My kids love it when the family sits down to play a board game together. Lately we have been playing a lot of the card game Uno.
We have a game called Bug Bingo that is our current favorite!
We love board games and one of our favorites is “Shut the Box!” Yahtzee is fun too. kristiedonelson(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you.
The Happy Salmon Game sounds really fun! I have not heard of it before, but after reading about it, would love to play it!!
I like playing lots of games with my family–Clue, Uno, Dutch Blitz, Marbles, & many more. I love doing anything that involves getting my family or friends together & interacting with each other!
Scrabble has always been my favorite game!
We like playing trivia games.
I like the game Trouble.
I like Battleship.
I also like puzzle games.
My boys liked playing Hi Hi Cherry O.
We play dominoes a lot.
We play Uno.
I would enjoy playing On The Dot Game with my daughter.
I would like to play Karma Card Game with my daughter.
I would enjoy playing Laser Maze Logic Game with my daughter.
Id also really love to play Pass the kwan game with my daughter.
I enjoy playing Dr. Eureka Speed Logic Game and Mouthful Fun Mouth Guard Party Game with my family.
I would enjoy playing the Pigs in Pants Board Game and Ghost Blitz 2 Game with my family.
I would enjoy playing Karma Card Game and the Mad Cave Bird Games ColorKu game with my family.
We like to play strategy & card games.
We have a game called Gigamons that we enjoy playing.
Love all the fun games. Another game we enjoy is Spot It. We have several versions.
A game I spotted while over on Amazon is Slideways, that looks quite intriguing.
Another game we enjoy playing is Top That. My son loves playing with me
The great Karibou Camp game.
The Fatal Rendez Vous gamr would be most interesting.
Amazing and fun to play; the Katamino Deluxe game.
A cool and fun game to play is the Pylos game.
I love the Marrakech game; it is marvelous.
There’s nothing better than a game of Gloobz.
Of all the stocking stuffer games listed in the post, I like the word games most like Show me the Kwan and Scrabble Slam Cards. Between the three games of Sushi Go, Dos, and Dutch Blitz though, I’d go with Dutch Blitz and Sushi Go. All great stocking stuffers!
DOS Tin Card Game seems like fun. Also Sushi Go! – The Pick and Pass Card Game seems terrific.
The Pick and Pass Card Game love and Sushi Go
I like the DOS Tin Card Game and Sushi Go!
We LOVE Dutch Blitz!! Fun game! I’d like to try Show me the Kwan and Sushi Go. Can never have too many family game nights!
DOS looks like fun
Dos looks like it would be a great edition to our family games!
Sushi go sounds fun