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How many of you regularly hold a family game night or play dates with the kids? Here at our home we hold family game night twice a month where we get together for pizza and games. It first started when our daughter was a little …
If you have game nights with family or friends and you enjoy playing outside of the run-of-the-mill board game box, Utter Nonsense might be right up your alley. This game is all about acting silly and trying to outdo your fellow players, using assigned accents or character’s voices reading off-the-wall phrases. The sillier the better if you want to win!
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The Utter Nonsense Family Edition game includes two sets of cards, 50 green cards called “Accents” and 450 white cards called “Phrases.” Players are dealt phrase cards, while the “judge” assigns the accent. One by one, players read one of their phrases using the designated accent, and the judge chooses a winner, who then becomes the judge for the next round. The “accents” may be actual accents such as Italian or French, but they also may be movie characters like Chewbacca, people like Grandma, or characteristics like Whisper. When paired with meaningless or comic statements, the results can be really funny. Make a competition out of it, and you’ve got game night knocked.
The game is designed to be played by groups of four to twenty players. The length of the game is variable, depending on how many people are playing, how long each player takes, time between rounds, etc., but the makers estimate that one game should last thirty minutes or more.
My Thoughts: Earlier this year, we moved from the Northeast to the South, and we don’t know many people down here yet so we’re not in a position to host game nights. Unfortunately, this means that until we get more settled into our new home town, I can’t share a personal review of this game. My husband often amuses me by saying funny and oddball things using different accents or as eccentric characters, so he’d be a natural at Utter Nonsense! I do think the combination of the accents and characters with the kooky statements and phrases would be a lot of laugh-out-loud fun for a group of people who aren’t afraid to get silly.
The Utter Nonsense Family Edition game is available at Target for $24.99. Utter Nonsense is also available in a Naughty Edition for adults-only fun. You can connect with the game makers on Facebook too.
Disclaimer: A. Bailey received complimentary products for review purposes & feature on The Classy Chics blog. No monetary compensation was received. A. Bailey’s thoughts, opinions and words are 100% her own. Your thoughts may differ.
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About Golly Gee-pers – Golly Gee-pers is a Green company devoted to making your job as a parent, teacher or caregiver easier and more fun. Staff research, test and develop new products that help teach children important social skills and inspire them to become good citizens. Did you know it’s never too early to begin teaching empathy, civility, integrity, and conflict resolution? Each of these has at its core an understanding of mutual respect. Through music, art, story and games Golly Gee-pers hope to provide you with fun and easy ways to engage children in the practice of constructive social conduct.
Table Manners Cards
Today’s families are super busy and sitting down together for meals tends to be an exception rather than a rule. When you do have this opportunity you want it to be an enjoyable experience,not a time when you are criticizing your children or nagging them over their manners. What to do? Forgo teaching manners? Absolutely not! Bring out the Table Manners Cards. This fun mealtime game encourages your little diners to compete for thumbs-up cards while avoiding thumbs-down cards in an effort to win a coveted Ready-to-Dine-Out award. Once introduced, kids will want them at every meal!
Sara’s Thoughts
Are your children out of control during meal times? Are you tired of disciplining your children because of their table manners? Do you dread taking your children out to eat because of their manners? If you’ve answered yes to any of the above questions, then it’s time to invest in Table Manners Cards. This is a fun, creative game you can play with the whole family and is an effective way to teach table manners to your children without causing a fuss. Your kids will learn positive ways to behave at mealtime without even knowing they are learning. Each Table Manners set comes with directions to two different ways to play the game, thumbs-up cards, thumbs-down cards, and blank cards to create your own table manners.
So how is the game played? Before the game begins, you will model a positive manner and compliment on it (ex: put your napkin in your lap and then say, “I just put my napkin in my lap, so I get a thumbs-up card). Next, introduce a thumbs-down card by making a mistake and explain it (ex: Oops, I was talking with my mouth full, so I get a thumbs-down card). As the meal begins, the selected card keeper will handout thumbs-up and thumbs-down cards as they see positive and negative table behaviors. The diner with the most thumbs-up cards and the least thumbs-down cards at the end of the meal wins a Ready-to-Dine out award. There are two such cards in the desk in case of a tie. Of course, everyone really wins because they practiced good table manners!
It’s such a simple concept, but I absolutely love this idea. With a rambunctious 4-year-old nephew who can be quite a handful during mealtime, I can’t wait to introduce this game. To start,I will award “prizes” for positive table manners such as a sticker on his sticker chart or an extra story at bedtime. As the manners progress, prizes will be limited until completely eliminated. It really is the perfect game for all ages. The game comes in the perfect carrying case that can be stored in a drawer or your purse. Keep it at home OR take it with you the next time you go out for a family dinner. You don’t have to be home to play! With Christmas around the corner, this is a perfect stocking stuffer for your little one and is completely affordable at $12.95 per game. So check out the Table Manners cards and many other games and help your child learn the manners they need to succeed in life.
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Disclaimer: Sara M. has personally reviewed the product listed above. Sara has not received any monetary compensation for her review. Sara did receive a free product to try out so she could evaluate and use it for her review. Her thoughts & opinions in this review are unbiased & honest and your opinions may differ.
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