Fun card game for kids that also gets them to do a little math

Super fun new card game created by my 6 year old:

HAPPY JACKS

Object of game:  Collect the highest cards and have the highest points at the end of the game

Scoring: 

Jacks = 13 points

Jokers = 12 points (play with these or not, it's up to you)

Kings = 11 points

Queens = 10 points

Tens = 9 points

(you can change the score value of each card value to match the math skills of your child)

1. Each player starts with 5 cards

2. Put the remaining cards face down and flip the top card over.

The object is to get rid of all of your low cards, you can keep the card the other player puts down or choose from the deck.

3. You are allowed to keep all of the face cards, jokers, or tens that you collect, you discard all the others as you collect face cards and 10s and jokers.

4. At the end of the game, you compare what you have with the other player/s and  add up the score as stated above.  The person with the high score wins.

It is a fun, fast, and easy game that encourages your little one to do a little math too!!

Funny Kid Poem about Screen Time

Great kids poem

 Here is one of our favorites.  Please come back and visit often as I will add more...

Great kids poems/stories:

Jimmy Jet and His TV Set

(for kids that like TV too much )

by Shel Silverstein

I'll tell you the story of Jimmy Jet-

And you know what I tell you is true.

He loved to watch his TV set

Almost as much as you.

He watched all day, he watched all night

Till he grew pale and lean,

From "The Early Show" to "The Late Late Show"

And all the shows between.

He watched till his eyes were frozen wide,

And his bottom grew into his chair.

And his chin turned into a tuning dial,

And antennae grew out of his hair.

And his brains turned into TV tubes,

And his face to a TV screen.

And two knobs saying "VERT." and "HORIZ."

Grew where his ears had been.

And he grew a plug that looked like a tail

So we plugged in little Jim.

And now instead of him watching TV

We all sit around and watch him.

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