Today our Advent Activity was to play a family game. Now normally playing games as a whole family is pure torture. The younger children can never concentrate, so you’re always having to remind someone it is their turn. And because there are so many of us, the games last forever! And there are few games that the whole family can play.

One game that does work well for the whole family is yahtzee, because even the youngest children can roll the dice. And Mommy gets to count it as math time. But, if you allow each person to play, it is the loooooongest game (even worse than monopoly!)

Enter… Team Yahtzee! It was Greyden, Emery, Brett and Mommy against Hewitt, Fletcher, Cole and Daddy. Mom and Dad were the cheerleaders. Greyden and Hewitt got to roll the dice the first turn. Emery and Fletcher rolled it for the second turn. And Brett and Colter were the closers!

And of course we let Indigo roll every now and then by herself.

What a super way to play yahtzee! Poppy got us an awesome yahtzee game. It has a wooden box where you roll the dice and a place that holds the dice you choose to keep. A great alternative to chasing dice all over the floor, retrieving them from under the stove, and removing them from the cat’s paw!

Brett started out keeping score, but she had to let mommy finish doing it because she was getting too upset by it. Of course, that was before she got yahtzee by rolling two threes to complete the 2 threes Greyden rolled and the 1 three Emery rolled. After that she was all smiles.

And yes, my team did win – it’s hard to beat a yahtzee.