The garden is one of our favourite features of the house. It’s one of the reasons we are planning the extension, to make the most of the garden as it’s currently accessed by one single door. As the boys grow older I can see us spending most of the summer in the back of the house and outdoors. We have gradually been adding to our garden game collection over the past few years but as O is getting a little older, it’s time for some entertainment that is a little more grown up.
O first played Jenga last year at my parents house and he loved it. He is such a competitive little boy, whilst also being quite a concentrator, and this was the perfect game for him. When Big Game Hunters got in contact and asked if we wanted to collaborate with them I was delighted, and it didn’t take long for me to decide on an outdoors Giant Jenga game for the garden.
Whilst G is still a little young to get involved it will be great fun for the older kids and the grown ups when the weather gets warmer. Sadly the weather hasn’t been that great over the weekend and we have had to bring the fun indoors to try out our Mega Hi Tower game (you can see their full range of giant Jenga games here). We’ve recently set the conservatory up as a playroom and it was the ideal space to try it out.
Luckily the wooden blocks are all contained in a strong (if not a bit heavy) bag which make it easy for moving around and for storage. If you’ve played Jenga before you’ll know how it needs to be set up and it only takes a few minutes to build. I set up the tower so it was ready and waiting as a surprise for O when he came home from school.
Just as I thought, he was eager to give it a try as soon as he saw it. We both took it in turns to play although as he’s only five he did want a bit of help choosing which would be the best brick to remove. I loved seeing how excited he was as the tower got higher and higher, before ultimately falling to the floor as it became just too wobbly. I already know this will be a family favourite in the garden when the weather starts to improve.
If you like the look of this, the lovely people at Big Game Hunters have kindly offered my readers the chance to win the Jumbo Hi-Tower which is a slightly smaller Jenga tower. Just as much fun to be had and it is really easy to enter by filling in the Rafflecopter form below.
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Open to UK residents aged 18 and over, the prize will be sent directly from Big Game Hunters.
Disclosure: We were sent the Mega Hi Tower In A Bag game for the purpose of this review but all thoughts and opinions are my own.
Swingball and badminton
Twister 🙂 xxx
I used to love playing football but regularly got told about watching the flowers. My daughter is more of a ‘hands on’ person so she loves things like twister, jenga and tennis/catch
We have a large hopscotch that my grandchildren love x
Swing Ball and tiggy with the ball!
Swing ball and rounders.
I don’t have any children but would love to win this prize for charity, to go to Romania.
Getting the chalks out and drawing on the patio, making up games x
we love playing with the stomp rocket 🙂
we love swingball
we love playing skipping
Bowls and swingball
We like playing swing ball and water games!
We love to play Hide ‘n’ Seek in the garden
Swingball
Love taking my son out and playing football! he loves it too x
Rounders
we usually play swingball
We love playing rounders are washing line badminton
Badminton and swingball 🙂
Swingball is my sons favourite
Swingball always loved that
Oh! Really want to win this giant jenga set!!! Will then use it for my wedding in June! 🙂
you cant beat a small game of rounders
Hop Scotch! Know it’s an oldie but we love it.
BADMINTON
swingball, and swing football
We love rounders
Croquet is our favourite
Boules
I love a game of badminton
giant tic tac toe 😀
We love to play rounders
Simple – but hide the thimble is one of our favourite
Swingball. Classic!
Twister is great fun, especially when the paddling pool is out at the same time and the kids are sliding all over the place 😉
swingball – and its portable which means we take it on holiday too!
I like playing ‘swingball’ x
Swingball
Football and Hula hoops
Swingball will always have a special place in my heart
I love the 2 days a year when it’s warm and sunny enough to make our own waterpark with slides and paddling pools and sprinklers.
water fights!
jumping over the sprinkler trying not to get wet
What a fantastic prize for my Grandchildren who would love playing Jenga with their
Cousins and Nan and Grandad.
My favourite summer garden game is swingball
French Cricket!
Trampoline
We love going bug hunting. Setting challenges and having fun with it
Badminton
Tag or hide and seek
Bowling, grandchildren love it, also have a small paddling pool
We play badminton a lot, and also a good old water fight if the weather is good enough!
Swing ball
Swingball is fun unless you get the over excited adult who hits it will record breaking force.
Swingball and badminton
Blind Mans Bluff
Swing Ball
We love swingball
Water balloon Fights 🙂
Badminton (get fed up when the shuttlecock keeps flying over nextdoor though
we love badminton
Croquet
Swingball!!
Any ball games really, often made up with their own rules.
badminton
rounders
Our family favourite is swingball
We have a swigball set that has the new base which can’t fall over. It’s great, bit dangerous, but great.
Swingball
Badminton
Cricket
swingball and darts
Playing with the water table
Swing all and water guns
we love water fights 🙂
Den building
Swingball ! I once hit my dads pipe straight out of his mouth with the ball and into next doors garden !!
cricket 🙂
Twister.
We like to play mini bug hunting!
Swingball!
swingball 🙂
i like playing cards
Non-Stop Cricket
swingball
Has to be swingball
swingball
Croquet, especially after a few beers or cocktails!