Sort of like Musical Chairs, but with cards. Other players must then grab one, with one player being left spoonless. Spoons are placed in the middle of the table and once a player gets four matching cards, they silently (or not so silently) remove a spoon. My friend Ann Imig loves to play this easy, fast-paced game (also known as Pig or Tongue), with her boys. Maybe I should start playing this myself now to boost my memory since IвЂ™m in my 40вЂ™s and forget pretty much everything. Kids must use their powers of memory, or concentration, to remember where certain cards are in order to find them again. All cards are placed face down and the players turn two over at a time, hoping to get a match. And the 8вЂ™s, just like your kids after playing this for hours, are totally crazy.ДЄnother great one for smaller kids, this is basically a matching game. Similar to UNO, players have to place cards from their hand that matches the one on the deck. This is another game that younger children can easily figure out. In fact, I still remember little 3-year-old Jack yelling, вЂњGo fwish, mommy!вЂќ ABest for ages 3 and up. This is probably the first card game every kid learns. (Note: These games are all played with a traditional 52-card deck IвЂ™m not including specialized games like UNO or SET.) Click on the name of the game for a link to a website that details the rules more than I ever could. So, with that in mind, here are just a few classic and not-so-classic card games to play with kids. Perfect for those times youвЂ™re stuck in an airport or in a cabin for a week of family fun. After all, you can take a pack of cards anywhere and instantly set up a game. And, judging by the summer fun photos I see on Instagram, itвЂ™s something a lot of other families love to do, too. We also play cards as a family quite often, and itвЂ™s some of the most fun we have together.

IвЂ™m kidding, of course, because the truth is that IвЂ™m actually thrilled they found something to do with their cabin mates that didnвЂ™t require batteries or Wi-Fi. вЂњNext summer IвЂ™ll plop down $2 on a pack of playing cards and call it a day.вЂќ вЂњWell that would have been nice to know before I spent thousands of dollars on camp fees,вЂќ I thought to myself. I expected to hear them rave about the jet skis, the pool slides, the dances, or the awesome sport courts, but their answers came as a huge surprise. My boys came home from two weeks spent at summer camp and on the drive home, I asked them to tell me their favorite activity.

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