Games are fun, but when you can get around each other, sit, relax and have fun while getting to KNOW each other more – that is even better! Hubby and I have ‘porch time’ as often as we can. This time of year, it’s pretty rare due to his schedule, but when we are able to have that ‘porch time’ (our time along, on the deck, kids in bed, just chatting) we like to talk about random things. I cannot tell you how much I adore Around the Table Games. We are able to sit on the deck, talk and LEARN about each other even more than we ever thought. I mean.. come on, its not every day where you can ask random questions like “If everyone in your family became dogs, what kind of dogs would they be, and why”. Seriously! Who comes up with this! These are just about as random as I am in the car on a road trip. I always annoy hubby with random face expressions or questions so these are GREAT!
All are truly great, but Family Talk is the first one that I had a chance to check out. I love it. I adore it. I love them ALL!
Family Talk
Around the Table games – Questions to get the whole family talking! Family Talk takes the dinner table discussions with you wherever you go!
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Fun, Portable conversation game to keep today’s busy families connected
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100 question cards attached to round carabiner clip for use anywhere – at home, at a restaurant, in the car, on vacation
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Questions that get the whole family talking – even hard-to-talk-to Teens!
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Portable, thought provoking, fun!Ages 3+
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Great gift idea
Family Talk – Engage your families in colorful conversations with this award winning set of 100 portable conversation questions. Simply pick a card, ask the question and get a surprising and often hilarious glimpse into the hearts and minds of family members. Diverse topics reveal surprising answers, even from hard-to-talk-to teens. The games ultra-portability allows families to play in the car, at the dinner table, on vacation or at a party! Great gift idea! 100 cards per deck. Ages 3+
Sample Questions:
- What was dinnertime like when you were young?
- What do you worry about most?
I love these because they are so small and you can toss them in your purse bag, diaper bag, suitcase – anywhere and take them with you. These are so much fun for road trips!
Another great one is Family Talk 2. Same concept, but a bit different. Does that make sense?
Family Talk 2
Around the Table games – Questions to get the whole family talking! Family Talk takes the dinner table discussions with you wherever you go!
- Second edition of our popular Family Talk game
- Fun, Portable conversation game to keep today’s busy families connected
- 100 new and exciting question cards attached to round carabiner clip for use anywhere – at home, at a restaurant, in the car, on vacation
- Questions that get the whole family talking – even hard-to-talk-to Teens!
- Portable, thoughtprovoking, fun!
- Ages 3+
- Great gift idea
Who can admit to asking the grandparents questions out the wazoo? Now you not only have some random questions for them, you will get their, and your, minds rolling and have fun doing so!
Grandparent Talk
Connecting Generations through Conversation- Fun for Grandchildren and Grandparents
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Fun, Portable conversation game to connect grandchildren and grandparents!
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100 fun question cards attached to round carabiner clip for use anywhere – at home, at a restaurant, in the car, on vacation
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Allows grandchildren a fun way to realize that grandparents were young once too!
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Questions that bridge generations while creating treasured memories!
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Portable, thoughtprovoking, fun!
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Ages 3+
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Great gift idea
Just draw a card, read the question and watch your family history unfold one question at a time. Grandparent Talk allows grandchildren and grandparents to learn more about each other while keeping family history relevant and alive! Diverse topics allow for relevant conversations that granchildren can apply to life today. Grandchildren and grandparents are often surprised to learn how much they have in common! This game allows grandparents’ wisdom to be communicated in very fun, lively way. It also allows grandchildren to express their wisdom and help grandparents see what life is like today for our youth!
Just pick a card, ask a question and watch the fun begin. This portable conversation game easily takes the dinnertable conversation with you whereever you do. See how the power of conversation can connect your family and friends!
Sample Questions:
- What is the most special day of the week in your home? What makes it so special?
- Name some holidays that your friends may celebrate that you don’t? Why is this so?
If you are in the mood to learn about your family or even your friends, AND have some laughs – seriously.. check out Around the Table Games. You will truly laugh and have fun!
Would you like to win some Family Fun?!?
HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO!
- Go to http://aroundthetablegames.com/
- Come back here and post to me how you would use these fun cards in your own lives.
For extra entries:
- Tell me more about your family nights, or like me – our porch times. How would Around the Table Games help your family open up?
- Twitter the giveaway (leave link on comment entry)
- Blog about this giveaway (leave link on comment entry)
- Visit Mommy Mandy and Rockin’ Mama and let me know you entered their fun Summer Events as well!
Just the little tidbits about entries and what not 
- Please be sure to leave your email address so I can contact the winner.
- Winner will be chosen at RANDOM and backed up by post content.
- ONE (1) winner will receive one of EACH (Family Talk, Family Talk 2 & Grandparent Talk) Around the Table card games.
- Winner will be contacted via Email. If no response in 48 hours, another winner will be drawn
Contest will end on May 29, 2009 at 11:59 pm ; central time
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Our family nights involve playing board games and eating snacks. Around the Table games would open our family up by creating a friendly environment to get to know each other better.
I would use these fun cards for party games.
The Double Deck Pack of Family and Grandparent Talk sounds great for our family:)
It would be good for family game night.
It’d be fun to use while traveling/riding in the car
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we usually sit around in the living room in the evening before bedtime so this would definitely help everyone to get to know somethings about each other that we didnt know
I would use these to play with the family at least one night during the week and the granparent talk I would use at work at the nursing home- the residents would love them
I’d use these to get conversation going at dinner. Too often we talk about the same things. Or worse yet, my husband tries to get away with reading at the dinner table!
I just moved out on my own and I love having card night, mostly Spades but this seems quite interesting.
I think it would be good for date nights. After several years of marriage sometimes it’s hard to know what to talk about besides ‘how was your day?’.
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id love family talk for after dinner fun while we are all at the table
This would be great to use at the dinner table to get everyone talking.
This would be awesome to play with the family on the weekends and help us get to know one another!
Our family nights usually involve a singalong or jam of some type. We’re all very musical so we all join in on our instruments and sing our favorite tunes
We could use these in the car to make long roadtrips more bearable!
I would use these when our family gets together for big dinners.
The grandparent talk would be fun as the kids are getting old enough to want to hear stories from grandma and grandpa.
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My son loves games so game night is pretty much every night we have time. Last night we played KerPlunk! Thanks for the chance@!
I would love to have family talk. Anything that sparks good conversation is a winner with me! Thanks for the chance!
During the Summer we sit out on our patio alot and talk. These would be great for those times when there aren’t any other distractions. Also, when we have the grandparents over, this would be great way for our kids and parents to bond.
I would use these cards after dinner to connect with our kids, before everyone goes off to their own activities, homework, etc.
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Right now we usually sit outside on the patio after dinner, we typically talk and have coffee and dessert and just catch up with eachother’s lives. This game would be something new and fun to get conversation going.
This would be really fun to do after dinner to reconnect with everyone, great contest!
What a great idea for families to communicate together!
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I would use this to help communication with my 7 yr old. I want him always be open with us and it can only start with us, even if its trivial information.
I like the Family Talk!
This would be great during dinner. A great way to connect with family and friends.
I would use these cards to promote topics during meal times.
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we play “what am I” at the dinner table. It would be so much fun to have a more structured game to play
My family is spread out all over the country, but on major holidays we get together. This would be great to bring out to reaquaint ourselves with each other.
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Our family night consist of going out to dinner and then come home and watch a movie together or talk time together.
Vacationing or traveling on the road.
Our family nights are usually pizza, camping out on the floor and guitar hero!
I LOVE this idea! I have all boys in my house so it’s hard to get them talking about themselves or their day! I think this would help them open up!
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I would use them at a Family Reunion
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Our family nights usually include a family favorite for dinner. Our game will always be teasing, playing, chatting.
these would be so great on road trips this summer!
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These would be perfect on road trips!
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I would ask my granddaughter to pick a page. Then I would draw it and ask her to
guess it.
Camp Talk would be our favorite to take along on scout camp outs.
our son is just now getting big enough to start expressing his feelings- we have game nights and movie nights weekly! he loves family time!!
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these would be great for our family game night! i love games like this!!
Thank you for a great giveaway. This would be so much fun to use with my 3 children on our family game nights. THank you
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I would love to pull these out at our next Sunday dinner,this would be so fun!
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We love to have family nights in so these would be perfect.
great for conversation on family game night
These would be great to keep in the car. We take lots of road trips and often run out of things to do. This would surely keep the conversation flowing.
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Our family nights are never planned–they happen when everyone happens to be home at the same time with no rushed plans. Usually wine has motivated the elders to discuss things as the youngens listen in with smiles
I think Camp Talk would be a great conversation starter around the fire during a weekend camp out
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grandma would LOVE this!
I would use them when my daughter and I are in the car driving!
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Well in addition to what I already mentioned, I think these cards would be great to get to know each other and ourselves better. Example: What makes you feel most welcomed when you get home? (taken from one of the cards above). Well off hand, I’d say for my husband it would be for the rest of us to stop what we’re doing and actually greeting him. But I seriously doubt that anyone knows what would make ME feel most welcomed when I got home. I’d love for them to know.
I think this is a great idea for a game/conversation starter. We don’t have a designated ‘game night’ or ‘family night’, we just loosely do it whenever. We have a variety of folks over almost all the time, of various age groups. Grandparents, us, teenagers (ours and her friends), our younger kids, our friends, etc. We usually gather around the table at some point and play cards, board games, or things like Taboo. We’d have a great time working off of these cards. Also, they’d come in handy in the car. I’m always driving the kids somewhere and I could just pull these out and get the conversation going!
we don’t have an established family night yet, but this would be a good stepping stone
i will use these cards to open communication lines within the family
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Family nights are pretty much different every night. We will play games,watch a good movie,do art projects,take walks,read a book. These cards would help by getting us involved in just talking on one night.
The Grandparent Talk would be great because I have 2 of my grandchildren living with me and I think this would really help our dinner conversation. I’m always asking them about their day and what they like. This would be a nice way for them to know about me. Thank you!
I’d use it to start conversations around the dinner table.
The Double Deck Pack of Family and Grandparent Talk would be great to have at the restaurant when we are out with some of our 15 grandkids. jelly15301@gmail.com
our family nights on the weekends are out side at a fire talking about the week and the next week coming it is fun and we learn alot about each other
it would make it so that me and my husband and stepdaughter would have something to talk about
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Our family nights usually include a family favorite for dinner and then we play a game. There’s a lot of teasing and joking in my family so I think that this type of game would really lend itself well to our family dynamics.
Wow, the games have won a lot of awards! I’d love Family Talk to inspire dinner conversation. My husband grew up in a home where all they did was eat at meal time. I grew up in a talking home so I have to teach him how to incorporate conversation into eating. LOL