Do you ever have several grandchildren over to your house at the same time? Need some new ideas of what to do? Game-O-Round would be a fun way to spend that time together. Here’s what you do.

Designate 3-4 rooms in your house as game stations (kitchen, living room, bedroom, family room, etc.). Select a game or activity for each station. Divide your grandchildren into groups and explain the games or activities in the different areas.

Send each group to a station. Start playing the game or doing the activity. Set a timer for 15 or 20 minutes depending on the activities. When the timer rings, everybody changes to a new station.

Game stations could include Fish, Chutes and Ladders, Concentration, Scatergories, Phase 10, Sorry, Chinese checkers, Dominoes, Twister, Ticket to Ride, Apples to Apples, or any game that your grandchildren enjoy. Select games according to the age of your grandchildren.

The stations could be activities instead of games. Activities could include sewing cards, dot-to-dot pages, coloring in coloring books, painting in water painting books, making mini Inca masks with Sculpey clay, dressing up in dress-up clothes (and taking your grandchildren’s picture), dancing the Hokey Pokey, making bookmarks with pictures from magazines, or painting a design on a terra cotta pot.

If you have older grandchildren in addition to fairly young ones, have the older ones do the activity left handed, or with their eyes blind folded, or in half the allotted time.

When everybody has gone to every station, gather in the kitchen for Chewy Brownie Cookies and a glass of cold milk. (Making these cookies could even be one of the stations!)

Chewy Brownie Cookies

1 1/3 C shortening
3 cups brown sugar
2 tablespoons hot water
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs
3 - 3 1/2 cups flour
2/3 cup powdered cocoa
1/2 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 bag chocolate chips

Beat eggs. Add sugar and cream the mixture. Add shortening and beat well. Add remaining liquid ingredients and mix. Add dry ingredients. Dough should be slightly sticky. Bake on greased cookie sheet for 9 minutes at 375 degrees.

Enjoy!
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