Looking for a fun way to celebrate family game night? Here’s how to make your own homemade trophy for extra family fun. Who’ll be the next Family Game Night champ?
A few years ago, my husband and I began a weekly Scrabble
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At first, I blew my competition out of the water! Let’s face it. I’m an avid reader and writer. My husband is not. However, he’s a strategist. And soon, he learned to use his teeny cat-hop-fun words in creative enough ways to win.
That’s when he began posting our scores on the refrigerator and making comments as the official champ throughout the rest of the week. The next Christmas, I bought us a t-shirt that spelled out champion in Scrabble tiles for the winner to wear to the next Sunday Scrabble competition.
It added even more fun and our boys couldn’t wait to see who would win the honor of wearing the “crown.”
Make A Trophy For Family Game Night
Want to add some friendly competition to your family fun?
Just like the t-shirt, a trophy can serve as bragging rights.
Now that my boys are older, our family fun nights have grown more competitive. Both boys can certainly hold their own with any game we choose to play, and, since we’ve played these games so many times now, they’ve learned all sorts of tricks to keep all of us on our toes.
The trophy just adds a little more fun to the mix.
Purchase an inexpensive Trophy Cup
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Homemade Family Trophy from Castaways
However, we decided to make our own trophy with castaways we found around the house.
With two boys, we have plenty of old action hero toys, so we simply super glued one to a small plastic flowerpot and painted the entire thing with silver paint.
My youngest son liked the idea so much, he created us another one out of his Legos. The ideas for this one are endless. So just have fun with it and create a trophy for your family that’s suited to their tastes.
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Other uses for your family trophy?
Present the trophy as an award for other activities, such as finished chores first, or earned an A on a test.
Just remember to keep the competition friendly and light-hearted. It’s a great way for little ones to learn the lessons of winning and losing, and the value in celebrating everyone’s accomplishments.
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I am in LOVE with this idea. My family does a friday game night pretty much weekly and this would be an awesome addition. We would have to make it pretty sturdy however b/c I am pretty sure there would be a fight over it =) Hello competitive family!
This is so cool. I wish I could say we have family game traditions with board games. Your posts make me want to push to start them. I love this trophy idea a lot.
Oh I love him! My kiddos aren’t old enough to need a trophy yet but we have regular game nights with some friends of ours and I think a trophy would go down a storm!
What a fun idea, Mitzi – my children will love this!
Stopping by from Motivate Me Mondays. What a great tradition to start with the family! Would love it if you would come by and share at the Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop (Tues 7pm EST).
Blessings,
Shari
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This is such a great idea! Love it! Pinning
This is pretty cute!
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We have a cup from our favorite frozen custard place, fastened to a piece of wood from my husband and his brother’s bunk bed from when they were growing up. It is won each time the family is together in a highly contested game of pitch. It is one of our most prized possessions.
I love that, Heather! Great memory builder 🙂
What fun, I love the trophies!!! Thanks for sharing on my #WW today!!! I do appreciate your time to stop by!! Have a great evening!!!
Karren
What a fantastic idea!
What a great tip! Hello, my name is Misty, from The Lady Prefers2Save at http://theladypreferstosave.com, and I’m one of the new co-hosts for the Merry Monday Linky Party! Thanks for linking up at the Merry Monday’s Linky Party this week. Have an awesome weekend!
What a fun idea! Thanks for linking up to The Creative Exchange Linky Party.
This is awesome I may have to do this for my family we are super competitive. Thanks so much for linking up last week with the Creative Spark Link Party. Hope you link up again today! http://bit.ly/1t2Ohhl
This is such a fun idea! My kids would really like it when we have family game night. Thanks for linking up to The Creative Exchange! xo, Laura