Stuck at the airport?
Are you going on a plane this summer with children? Or any summer for that matter? Most likely you’ll think … “money, passport, tickets” …..as you leave the house. But I’d advise adding “games” to your list of indispensable items. When Easyjet announce a 4-hour wait in some poxy little airport with overpriced mags and drinks that your children simply MUST have to stay reasonable, you can whip out one of the following:
Bananagrams – we played this all holiday and it can be played by a family of all ages. Sort of freeform scrabble but good for vocabulary building and good for competitive children. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Winning-Moves-BAN001-Bananagrams-Game/dp/1932188126
BrainBox History/Maths/The World etc – the ten-minute memory recall game. It’s really quite difficult even for adults but mind-broadening, general-knowledge-encouraging fun and good for all ages too. http://www.brainboxgame.com/
Chess – no explanation needed. In our recent chess phase (which has sadly now been superceded by PSP’s FIFA 2010 game) we played out one of the chess grandmaster games Karpov v Kasparov from 1984 World Chess Championships. (It was a very long wait at that particular airport).
Boggle – my children have now cottoned on to the fact that this is actually more work than it feels when you are having fun shaking the Boggle box. But still, it’s good for the first few games and you can always revisit it later. You’ll need to add paper and pencil to your list of indispensable airport items for this one.
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