Congratulations to Wendy. Winner of the Elefun & Friends games.
Rain, rain, rain that describes our weather for the past week. I’m so glad that our kids have been too busy playing to complain. The two games that Hasbro’s Elefun & Friends and BlogSpark sent to our family have been a huge hit and provided hours of laughs and fun. Their timing was impeccable. What can be better on a rainy day to pull out a special game? Our kids love these active, noisy games and I enjoy watching and listening to the fun and craziness.
Hang out till the end of this post for an opportunity to win BOTH of these fun games from Elefun & Friends.
The kids couldn’t wait to play Giraffalaff Limbo
it had us all laughing from the very beginning. This is not a limbo game for adults (unless you’re super flexible), our 5′ 8″ 13 year old decided to sit it out, but the other children ages 1-11 had a blast. The children spin to see how they will navigate under the bar, classic limbo, crab walk, crawl, bending frontwards, etc. Then start the music and the game begins. When a child knocks the bar off the music stops and the giraffe gives a hysterical laugh and the game ends in gales of giggles.
Our children played Giraffalaff Limbo with some of their friends
, 13 children altogether including a 1 year old and two 3 year olds. The game kept the children completely entertained for nearly an hour.
We liked this game because all ages can “play” and feel included. The little ones would run or crawl under the bar while everyone clapped and cheered them on. The bigger children get competitive while the smaller ones have a bit of an advantage because of their size.
My one complaint about this game is that the legs snap into the base as a “one time assembly” which means that although you can take everything else apart and put it all back into the box, those legs are in the bases permanently, never to go back into the box. This makes the game a bit of a nuisance to store.
Scatterpillar Scramble
moving and the music is playing, not as easy as it looks, trust me.
This game is simple enough that our 4 and 3 year olds are is able to play independently, although with the marbles, I do need to be sure that the baby isn’t around and that it all gets put away. I enjoy having a variety of quick, simply preschool games that I am able to play with the little ones in a spare moment or two and this game fits the bill.
Scatterpillar Scramble is another winner in our home, even Mark and I enjoy racing the children and each other. The children love that they are occasionally able to beat us (only when I’m having an off day of course).
Like the games? From now until October 31 you may download a printable coupon for $4 off any Elefun & Friends game. The coupon is valid until December 31.
Wouldn’t your children love to receive these games for Christmas? Elefun & Friends is generously giving one Raising Olives reader BOTH of these games (a retail value of $58).
To enter:
- Leave a comment on this post telling me some of your favorite rainy day activities.
Extra entries:
- Tweet about this giveaway including @RaisingOlives and a link back to this post.
- Blog about this giveaway.
- Please leave a separate comment for each additional entry.
Comments will close on Wednesday, October 21 at midnight.
Hasbro’s Elefun & Friends and My BlogSpark sent these games to our family free of charge to enable me to write this review. All opinions expressed are my own and I am not otherwise reimbursed for any reviews here on Raising Olives.
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Hi, I'm Kimberly. 
It’s been rainy around here too. We also enjoy games. We like Cooking Cookies and Uno a lot. If I need something for the kids to do without me, playdough and moon sand are nice for a rainy day. These games from Elefun & Friends look like a lot of fun, we would love to win them!
I love to build forts, play twister, read, clear all the furniture away and have a picnic.
On rainy days we love to curl up and watch old movies, build with duplos or lincoln logs, do puzzels or, if the weather allows, my kids love to go play in the rain. Here in MI that doesn’t happen too often though.
We love to build forts/princess castles/pirate ships/hideout’s….really whatever fancies the childrens imagination at the moment…..with blankets/sheets ect.
Rainy day, hmmm. We don’t get much rain where we are, so we don’t have many opportunities for rainy day activities. In fact, on this trip through Arkansas and now in Indiana, my kids have seen more rain in 5 days than their whole previous lives.
Indoor activities we enjoy are reading, baking cookies and hot cocoa (I’m thinking snow days), watching movies together, watching food network challenges.
Most of our games are either for little kids or big kids. I play Scrabble with my two oldest and my older kids enjoy Connect4 and Battleship. I would love to have a game for a wide range of ages. This sounds like lots of fun!
Raising Olives Reply:
October 16th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Another game that is fun for all ages is Family Fun Cranium. Everyone enjoys that one even though the littles aren’t very good at it they enjoy trying to guess, and running around to find things. Since it’s played in teams it works.
My kids are all old enough now that a rainy day often means everyone curling up near the wood-stove in the living room with books. Sometimes I read, sometimes I quilt, but I always spend some time looking around the room at all those heads bent over their books, and thanking the Lord.
We love to bake chocolate chip cookies, curl up with our blankets and pillows on the floor and watch movies, and play indoor hide-and-seek.These look like fun games! (Especially for a rainy day
When it’t raining here I love to pull out the playdough! Some of my kids can play forever with that stuff so long as I give them the cookie cutters too!
We like to cuddle up under some quilts, leave the lights off all day and have a movie marathon snuggled together.
oh the limbo game looks awesome. I may have to get that for jr. youth! We read books a lot. Or we play the Wii as a family and Uno Flash! We love Uno Flash to play with our adult friends not our children…lol
Oh, we love active games like these! On a rainy day we love to pop popcorn, watch a movie, bake something yummy, and then take half to share with family or friends.
Well, we have had a LOT of rainy days for about 8 weeks. I hope the rain clears up your way. We are headed up there in a week!!
On rainy days we read (ok, we read on non-rainy days as well), watch old home videos or other movies, or play games. Our newest game purchase is Scrabble Apple. Based on Scrabble, but without a board and no crossword setup. Fun! Especially when I win!!!
Raising Olives Reply:
October 16th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Oh Anita, if you are really going to be close contact me. It would be fun to meet.
My favorite rainy day activities are reading and playdoh. However, we are big monopoly and scrabble fans so we love to play those as well.
Thank you.
we LOVE a good rainy day! just a few of the things we do…put up a tent and pretend we’re camping in a rain forest, have a pajama/movie/popcorn party, have a read-in, make and decorate cards & letters for friends and family, if the day is warm (summer) the kids put on their bathing suits and go outside to dance in the rain
the limbo game looks like great fun…i appreciate your thoughts on it, as i have a variety of ages not quite the same spread as yours…and now i know they can all play it…except the newborn of course! thanks! i’ll be tweeting and blogging about that game…and hope to find it on a shelf and buy it soon!
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Raising Olives Reply:
October 16th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
*sigh* I miss having a newborn.
On a rainy day, some of our favorite activities are getting the family together and playing board games. It’s good quality family time and many of the games also help our son learn to count. It’s great! We could definitely use some new games!
haha, i forgot to tell you my rainy day ideas…my girls love to draw, so they tend to hold up in the dining room and create masterpieces…which i pick from and put in frames above my french doors! they love to play games…uno is a huge favorite…and candy land and cutes and ladders, which the younger girls can play.
My favorite rainy day activity is to snuggle under blankets reading our favorite stories while everyone sips on hot cocoa with extra marshmallows.
Blessings,
lisa in jax
One of the kids favorite rainy day activities is to make and play with playdough. It is an activity that does kill a lot of time, but makes a huge mess…
Our favorite rainy day activities usually include printing off coloring pages from the internet and letting the crayons out of the box. We sometimes practice the kids alphabet, play superheros or dance crazily to our favorite music. Anything to keep our kids entertained so we don’t go insane ;o)
My children are just discovering the fun of games. Their game repertoire consists of Old Maid and UNO. I’m sure this winter we will be adding to that and discovering how fun indoor games can be on rainy days.
how fun! My kids love to play dance party, or build forts on rainy days, these games would be so much fun!
We love board games here, too! We have a large collection of both classic ones (Monopoly, Scrabble, Clue, Backgammon, Chess) as well as more contemporary ones (Blokus, Upwords, Rummikub, Chronicles of Narnia). These look like fun ones to add to our collection!
We also rent DVDs from the library or watch our own. We have most of the Veggie Tales videos, the complete collection of Little House on the Prairie DVDs and more. This week has been especially rainy and we checked out some of the HBO/Devine Entertainment Composers series DVDs and a PBS special titled Liberty! because we are studying the American Revolution right now in our history studies.
Autumn and winter are also a great time for baking–cookies, brownies, quick breads, etc!
Thanks for letting me know about this give-a-way! We, too are dealing with all the rain and trying to find ways to keep the kids occupied inside. Hope we win this. They would make great Christmas gifts.
Unfortunately my kids spend WAY too much time watching TV, so it would be great to have some new games to play!!!
These look like great games.
It has been rainy here for a long time now.
We do a lot of different things. Sometimes we cuddle up and watch a movie together and other times we play games. Two of our favorite games are Pass The Pigs and chickenfeet. Hmm I notice a farm theme. LOL
I like to keep those odd, big gifts that extended family give us put away in the garage. Then when we have a week of rainy or cold weather I can put something out that the kids haven’t seen in a while. My mom gave us an inflatable ball pit a few years ago and we ended up with a Rose Petal Cottage from somewhere. These things take up way too much room to have out all the time, but when I pull them out the kids are so excited and play with them for hours.
My girls are just getting old enough to enjoy games like Guess Who and Hi Ho Cherry-O. So we are just beginning to build our game collection. These two look really fun!
Raising Olives Reply:
October 16th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
I like the idea of keeping some big things back to bring out when it rains.
Those games look like so much fun. Now that we’re in the desert, we rarely have rain, so unless there is lightning, you’ll find all the kids outside playing in the rain. lol!
These look fun! I’m afraid that when we have rainy days, we do school (especially on cold ones). It is the best time to get a lot done. Of course, my kid’s favorite warm rainy day activity is twirling in the rain and puddle stomping. *Ü*
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Rainy days are great days to do CRAFTS in our house! Enjoying your website so much!
Raising Olives Reply:
October 16th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Thank you!
My favorite rainy day activity is to make hot tea and read, my boys like it as well.
We like building puzzles and reading lots of books.
We like to play Uno or do a “Pack It All In”. http://www.smockityfrocks.com/2008/06/pack-it-all-in.html
Raising Olives Reply:
October 16th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Why am I having to approve a comment from you? Did you change emails or something?
Smockity Frocks Reply:
October 16th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
My msn email was threatening to shut down unless we paid, so I set up a yahoo email, but msn never shut down, so now I can’t remember which one I leave where!
Raising Olives Reply:
October 16th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
So long as you’re not leaving me your spam email account.
Most of days here in Germany are rainy! We spend the really stormy days in PJs & finger paints and play dough are saved for extra soggy days!
We have a play slide in the boys room, so they can slide even if we can’t make it out to the park.
hi there, you have such a wonderful and helpful blog. I am reading the Five peppers to my children and they are loving it. thanks for sharing all that you do with your children. on rainy days, we watch videos, play inside, dance. My children love music and dancing, so we do a lot of that. They are also into dinosaurs so we pretend to be dinosaurs a lot.
Raising Olives Reply:
October 16th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Thanks Tereza. We just finished read “Five Little Peppers” love that book!
I tweeted!
We love games and these look like hours of fun!
We have a tunnel that we pull out, on rainy days and during some evenings. My 4yo and 1yo love tunnel time! We also build blanket forts in the living room. The limbo game looks like so much fun. If we don’t win I am putting it on my son’s wishlist for Christmas:)
What a fun giveaway! We love to sit by the window for a while and just watch the rain come down – or go outside and play in the puddles! Then, dry off and sit on the couch with a good book!
We love to get our play silks (that we were inspired to make from your website!) on rainy days.
Raising Olives Reply:
October 16th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Yeah for homemade playsilks!
twittered it!
A long time favorite activity at our house has been to build forts from couch cushions, tables, and sheets.
Hello! We would love to be entered into this giveaway. There are so many things we like to do during rainy days: first of all, watch the rain from the big living room window, my kids all LOVE to draw, so they will just pull out stacks of paper and crayons or markers and draw, draw, draw! We love to curl up on my king sized bed and read or watch a movie together. Making tents is huge in our house–my teenager enjoys making them and littles hang out in there. They will bring legos, books, dolls, action figures–you name it– in there and get some good play going! I also put the three middle girls (who are all close in age) into our big master bathtub and sit in there and read or tidy while they play in the bubbles.
The funny thing about my list is, is that these aren’t just some things I keep as backup for rainy days–we usually do every single one of these things when the rain continues all day long!
Thanks for the giveaway!
We like to watch movies, read, drink hot chocolate, and we also like playing games.
I just tweeted:)
On rainy days we love to play campout! We also love to bake and warm up the house.
One of our favorite rainy day activities is to pull out my 3-year-olds train track sets. I think I enjoy playing with them as much as he does! These games sound like they would be perfect for our family. Thanks for the chance to win!
On COLD rainy days, we love fresh cookies from the oven. On warm rainy days, my kids love to be outside in the midst of it. Unfortunately, here in this part of Hawaii, rainy days of any type are few and far between.
On rainy days, my two and three year old boys like to polish up on their catechism and Scripture memory work. Don’t all children? In reality, we do a little extra wrestling and reading books. We also have picnics in the living room!