DON'T EAT PETE!

We are renewing our FHE efforts, and I have to say - the games are the best part!

If you don't know how to play, here's how:

You need a game board (Kimberly made ours - it's a sheet of cardstock divided into squares with a number in each square.) and lots of small candies (smarties, skittles, m&ms - whatever).

Place one candy in each square. One person leaves the room and the rest agree on which number is "Pete". The one person returns and begins to eat the candies one by one. My kids say "You can eat that one" in a kind of chant, until they reach for "the one" and then you yell as loud as you can "DON'T EAT PETE!!"

Another fun one that we played last week was called "Knock Your Socks Off". The goal is to keep your socks on the longest while trying to get everyone else's socks off. Rory won like ten times, but there was major partying when we all ganged up on him and got one sock off of him. Next time we play we will add the rule that everyone has to be on their knees. I got that one out of a book called "Before They Turn Twelve" by Deborah Pace Rowley. It has a series of FHE lessons using "For the Strength of Youth".

Anyway, FHE is fun, plus it feels good to not feel guilty for not having it. (hehe did that make sense?)

PS - sorry about the technically awful pictures, but the light in my front room is almost non-existant.