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This is one of my favorite items in Walmart. I mean who was the genius that decided to mix sport with mosquito killing? I can guarantee he is a certified member of the Mensa Society. I love that it looks like a child’s play toy!
Now, what he didn’t think about was the dumb people like me that would be buying it. He probably also didn’t envision them being close to the glo-sticks or the fact that those two items would put together to form my kids favorite game: Bug Zapper tag!
Here’s how you play:
1-Give each child at least four glow sticks and place them on different appendages. Wrists, ankles, put a few together around the waist or if you are totally nuts they make a pretty necklace.
2-Give each child their very own Bug Zapper
3-Send them out on a nice Texas Summer night!
4- Doesn’t matter, as soon as they are outside they will start running from the bugs or the other child with a bug zapper trying to get the bugs around them, either way it is a lot of fun to watch from a screened in porch.
NOTE: Keep one bug zapper for yourself in case a kid decides to come near you!
How to win:
1. Leave a comment on the dumbest game you ever played as a child.
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we played the free game called..kick the can..a squashed soda or beer can worked fine,we also played flashlight tag at night..It was fun to be a kid!
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RedRover – I never got to go over 🙁
dodge ball cause i cant throw good
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girl talk. lol. i could never get the hang of that game..
The dumbest game I have played was when my mom would throw cards down on the flore and would have to pick them up she told me it was 52 pick up
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I liked and shared the bug zapper on Facebook! Also, I think the dumbest game I ever played as a child would have to be “Alligator”! As kids, we would play on the play structures on the playground and we couldn’t touch the ground because there were “pretend alligators” on the ground that would eat us!! It was hilarious!
I think the dumbest game I’ve ever played is “red light, green light’. I don’t remember all the specifices, but basically if the person in charge said “red light”, you couldn’t move up, but when they said “green light” you could. Like I said, I can’t remember it well, but that sounds pretty dumb to me lol.
monopoly by myself =)
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We used to play hide and seek in an old cemetery and one day the other kids put me in a crypt that had an small open door cause I was the smallest and when I got in they closed the door on me.. they said stay there till we come back, yeah right, they left me so there I stayed for 6 hours till the owner found me..I’m afraqid of cemeteries to this day lol
oh my gosh, i think I would be freaked out too!
Kids can be soooo cruel!
I played shoe store. I would line up all my grandpa’s shoes and from his recliner, he would shop. But part of the shopping experience was that each “customer” would get back scratching while they try on a pair of shoes. Genius on his part. I know so much more now!
You know how magicians and performers (recently also on America’s Got Talent) like to throw knives or darts at their assistants? We used to have one person stand on the wall at my grandparents cabin and while the others threw old, rusty darts at them. One time my sister hit me in the leg so well that the dart stayed in even as I ran around in pain. It’s amazing that none of us got tetnus!
My nephews and I would play “the burn game” when ever out sitter was busy watching her soaps. It involved a hot burner, spices and random toys. We’d make predictions on what would burn fastest, prettiest (season All by mccormick), smellest, and not at all. There was a point system and the winner got to pick something for the loser to do. Let’s just say I cheated a lot and my poor nephew Jeremy had to dress like Madonna and walk down the street singing “Like a Virgin”. Now when I say dumb I mean dont try this at home, completely stupid and dangerous but entertaining!!
We used to play this game where one person was “it” and had to lay on the ground, while everyone else walked around them counting 1 o’clock, 2 o’clock 3 o’clock etc.. Once reach midnight whoever is “it” would jump up and try to tag someone.
Perhaps too much zombie movies? lol
i shared ……dumbest game Ive ever played as a kid would have to be something we called “kick ball” but we always did the opposite so it would of be throw-ball. ha ha my cousins and I were unique kids i guess you can say. lol
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The dumbest game I ever played as a child had to be Simon Says because I always did what simon did not SAY TO DO!!!! Red rover was a close second…..good memories 🙂
The dumbest game I ever played as a child was 52 card pickup. My friends big sister thought it was entertaining to make us play that game all the time.
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My aunt (only 7 yrs older than me) taught us a game called Wasp Run. Basically we’d have a broom and bug spray. In southern California you’d get tons of wasps nests under the roof of your house- so we’d each have a “part”- one would open/close the window, another would spray the bug spray, another would knock the nest down with a broom handle. Then the window closer would have to shut the window before any angry wasps came to get us.
It was dumb because it was very dangerous! But it was a blast 🙂
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The dumbest game I ever played was “Blind” Slip’n Slide! Running full speed with my eyes closed and sliding down the slip’n slide! I’m pretty sure I’ve still got some scars 😉
We used play Statue of Liberty in our wagon. When it was my turn to be the State of Liberty, my sister jerked the wagon too hard and I fell out and busted my face. Not a good idea!
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we would smack a beach ball around in the house – turns out even a beach ball can break things!
The dumbest game I ever played as a child was marbles. We didn’t play them with marbles but with chocolate covered malt balls. The winner got to eat them all!!!!
the dumbest game i played was the adults would hide something outside in the dark andwe would have to find it they really liked to do this with easter eggs it was horrible think there is still stuff there to this day
We would lay on a seat of the merry go round and were not alowed to hold on. The other person would push the merry go round and see how long it would take for you to fall off.
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We played “Slug Bug”, some would hit so hard we would be bruised the next day.
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The dumbest game we ever played was freeze tag. When it was my turn to freeze, my brother & his friends would leave…. and there I was…. alone. LOL.
simon says was the dubest game ever
We played ‘Blind Volly’….you threw a large rubber ball over the roof of the house and the person on the other side had to catch it before it touched the ground. You never knew exactly where the ball was going to appear, so it involved a lot of running!
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Mud fights…lol
Anytime there was thunder and lightening we would run around screaming “the aliens are coming! the aliens are coming!” and we would “get ready”
The dumbest game I played was on the swing, We would swing to the moon and diff. planets, then jump back to earth.
Punch-buggy was pretty dumb.
we still play that one!
The dumbest game I ever played was the quiet game. It was so hard to be quiet and only the winner actually got a piece of candy.
We would collect Stink Bugs and build a city for them. This seems really dumb and kinda gross to me now.
We would play the taco game lol. You would get a blanket and roll yourself in it like a taco. Then we would freak out cause we couldn’t move 🙂
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we would be so bored on rainy days that we would take a ball of paper and hide it and then make the other kids search for it. whoever found it got to hide it again. when you live in the country you can make a game out of anything, lol.
I think it would have to be Red Rover!
Playing in the forest with friends and seeing a hive and hitting it with a stick…then seeing who could run the fastest! Yeah, dumb!
My brother was 8 years older than me, but I remember him and I playing together. I would love to play “lets go fishing” after it would rain. We would go around and gather any leaves we might find and put them in the mud puddle at the end of the driveway. Then we would get sticks for our fishing poles and go try to catch a fish ( the leaves). I had so much fun doing that with him. He was a great brother to me!
Bug tag…sounds fun! my kids would looooove it!
The dumbest game we ever played…..we lived by an abandoned barn and we would jump out the loft door and see who could jump further (glass and old metal barn equipment littered the ground). I’d have a fit if any of my kids were to try that now.
my parents use to play 52 card pickup with me doing the pick up.lol…i now relize it was mean..
I’m rubber, you’re glue! Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you! Once one of my siblings pulled this card, then you would start to say nice things! haha!
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I grew up in a family of 9 kids. So my the game I use to play was race to the house and lock everyone else out.
Gosh, it’s hard to think of a dumb game we played…we had so much fun playing everything. But when I read 52 card pick up…I laughed so I would have to say that!!
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We would catch fireflies and smear their entrails into our belly buttons and pretend that we were exotic belly dancers.
We used to race down the hill to see who could get to the bottom first….sometimes we would run, sometime we would roll…LOL I did try to cheat once by pushing my sister…she broke her collar bone…but I’m pretty sure she’s forgiven me.
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how about Mumbley Peg? (http://artofmanliness.com/2011/06/07/mumbley-peg/) This was a game taught us by my mom of all things! The “point” of the game is to throw a pocket knife off various parts of the body and have it stick in the ground. Yes, my mom taught us how to play with knives!
I still dislike Red Rover- lets choose to run and try to break each others arms or chest or better yet go flying over the arms in gymnastics fashion landing on the hard ground. lol
Blind man’s bluff. It’s like Marco Polo but out of the pool.
I never really got a chance to play any games as a child.
I would sit on top of the monkey bars and jump across to the other row of monkey bars. Not a good idea when you are afraid of heights and have sweaty hands. To say the least I slipped and went flying and broke my shoulder.
Dumbest game I ever played was I spy, really annoying after the 4th or 5th one. Of course I spy can be a godsend on a long car ride w/kids! lol
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The dumbest game I ever played was when I let my older brothers tie me to the clothesline pole, yes I’m that old, and then leave me tied up while they went off without they’re baby sister… Pretty dumb but hey I was a kid… I did learn though not to play that game again…. 😉
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One of the games I played with my brother and sister as a kid is that you can’t touch the ground in the house so we would jump from furniture to furniture and use pillows as stepping stones. Lol
dummest game i ever played as a child was with my brother in our small bedroom we would make a baseball out of wad of foil and get my brother bat and play baseball right in out bed room the dum part about is we had no bases because the size of our room lol
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Dummbest game I ever played when I was a kid was over the mountain. gotta have a BIG bus or camper or something to play this 1 you make 2 teams each team gets a side and 1 person throws a ball of some sort over, 1 person catches and then everyone runs around the other side and tries to tag the other team members before they get to the opposite side, if you get tagged you go to the other team and then they throw ball over and continue on.. dumb but lots of fun!!!
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We would just play in the dirt….. Pretty silly.
I used to play post office with my stuffed animals! I pretended they were customers coming in to mail stuff and buy stamps! Even made my own stamps out of stickers! But anyhow….my 4 year old keeps looking at these. He would live the glow in the dark game!
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We’ve played a game called “Mud Wars” before… pretty simple. Make mud and throw it at each other. There’s no real winner lol
We used to play all kinds of goofy games!
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We played flashlight tag, just another great way to have bugs hanging around you.
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We would have a dance off , and who ever was the best would win a gummy bear but imagine little and 6 year olds dance
We played a mud tag game and slid around in the mud.
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Hmm, probably flashlight tag! What a way to bring bugs TO you on a summer night…in the dark no less! 🙂
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That was the funniest game invention ever!
The Dumbest game we ever played as children was Hide and Go Seek…..Mind you, we decided it would be fun to do this in Grandpa’s Alfalfa Fields! BIG Mistake! After about an hour of hiding and seeking, we all started itching. When we all decided to give up and emerge from the tall Alfalfa Grass, we were all covered in hives =( We all had to go straight to the bath and itched for days after that. Although we were very itchy, we all agreed it was the best game of Hide and Seek we’d ever played =)
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Taking our bikes up a big construction pile of dirt and see who comes down the fastest. I was fast, but usually lost control of my banana seat bike and tumble down. It was fun until the dirt was taken away.
Red light, green light-hated it as a kid since it always ended up in arguments!
Ghosts in the graveyard. Somebody was it and you had to hide from the ‘ghost’ – problem was – I was afraid of the dark as a little kid – so that game scared the crap out of me – haha!
Probably Simon says
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Tinker taping passing cars…….funny until a really angry lady slammed on brakes and ratted me out to my dad. We had to peel all of the tape out from under the car and tires and brakes and mow the lady’s grass for a month 🙂
Dairy Queen mud pies lived in Oregon lots of rain and always mud served everyone the best mud pies in town!
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Capture the Flag. Everyone always cheated.
LOL…um we used to play headlight tag in the field that surrounded my house. We would all be driving a vehicle of sorts…an old datsun, a nissan pick up and an atv(4wheeler). We’d drive around the field at night, in the fog and you sped around the field trying to find the other players (my little brothers) then turn on your headlights to tag them!! Not such a great idea, I can’t believe we ever lived to tell about it!! I actually can’t believe our parents let us…we weren’t even old enough to drive!! The perks of being good ole farm kids I guess! LOL Good times!!
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Jumping over a jump rope with a quilt over it. I tripped on the quilt and sprained my arm.
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Last year in August, we had a an Easter egg hunt at the family reunion. And everyone hunted eggs. It was funny as could be to see my biker brother in law out there hunting eggs and an aunt in her 70 hunting eggs and giggling like a 2 year old when she found a egg. It will be something will never forget. Shared
When I was little my friends & I played a game we called “slide”. We’d spray cooking spray on our shoes & the kitchen floor & well slide. It was really fun at the time until I broke my ankle.
Oh my gosh, this giveaway is hilarious; we were JUST in Wally & my husband & daughter were like hey look at these. . .of course, Mommy was in a rush & no coupon. .didn’t make it in the basket. How ecstatic they would be if we won these, Lol! Hmm, ok dumbest game played as a kid, ya stumped me. . . all I can think of is my Mom wanting to play the synonym game waiting in line at the amusement park. Really? Maybe if we whispered. Sounds like something I’d play with my daughter now to keep her occupied in line. Thanks for all the great deals amidst your adventurous summer!
We play a game called “bumblee bat”. There were always thousands of these large bumblebees around an old shed we had and we would take a big stick and whack the bees. We scored a point everytime we made a hit.
I,d have to say of all the games I played as a child,it would have to be a tie between “kick the can” or “eat the peg.”
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The only one I can think of off the top of my head is ‘The Floor is Lava’ game where you have to jump around on the furniture and if you touched the floor “fell in the lava” you died.
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Dumbiest game we every played was hide the Monkey. We had a stuff Monkey that would get hidden at any of the five house (outside) we all lived at and you had 24 hours to find it. this poor Monkey within a two weeks looked really bad. We would hide it in trees, mailboxes, gutters and many other dumb places. It was fun back then but seems really dumb now. LOL
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I used to play hot lava on the playground which is actually quite dangerous lol
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The dumbest game we played has got to be the hand slap game where one person flips their hand over and tries to slap the other ones hand lol
Dumbest game we ever played was probably Red Rover.
I have 3 close siblings and we used to get into loads of trouble from our “games”. One that stands out to me just because of how much fun we used to have playing it. We used to beg our mother to buy us shaving cream and water balloons and I mean BEG. We would then fill up the water balloons with the shaving cream and procede to have a shaving cream balloon fight. You would not believe the mess that would be left on the lawn, mailbox, house and driveway!
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