Having a deck of cards on hand is always great to have on hand for awesome games to play with your little one. Turn this possible rainy day into a fun day. (Thanks to kidspot.com for the excellent ideas)CRAZY EIGHTS!
Here's how to play: Each player is dealt seven cards. The remaining cards are placed face down in the center of the table, forming a draw pile. The top card of the draw pile is turned face up to start the discard pile next to it.The first player adds to the discard pile by playing one card that matches the top card on the discard pile either by suit or by rank (i.e. 6, jack, ace, etc.). A player who cannot match the top card on the discard pile by suit or rank must draw cards until he can play one. When the draw pile is empty, a player who cannot add to the discard pile passes his turn. All eights are wild and can be played on any card during a player's turn. When a player discards an eight, he chooses which suit is now in play. The next player must play either a card of that suit or another eight.The first player to discard all of his cards wins.
PIG! Here's how to play: To play, choose which cards you want to collect then choose a card to discard and put it, face down, on the table in front of you. When everyone has a card on the table, simultaneously pass your card to the player on your left and then pick up the card which has been passed to you
WAR!
Here's how to play: The object of War is to win all the cards in the deck. Aces are high, 2s are low. The tricks are played according to rank; suits are ignored. All 52 cards are dealt with each player (if you have two players, each player has a total of 26 cards). You do not look at your cards - they are placed in a stack face-down. Holding the stack of cards face-down in one hand, you use the other hand to flip the card face-up on the table in front of you. Each player flips a card, so if you have two players you will have two cards facing up in front of you. The highest card wins the trick and the trick winner takes the 2 cards and places them at the bottom of his or her stack of face-down cards. You continue to play like this until one of you has accumulated all the cards. In the game of War, a war is a means to break a tie. When two cards of the same rank are played, you break the tie by playing new cards in addition to those already on the table. The player with the highest-ranking new card wins the tiebreaker and all the played cards. If you both play a card of the same rank - let's say you both play a Jack - you have to have a war. You leave the Jacks face-up on the table and put one card on top of your Jack - face-down - and then another card face-up on top of the face-down card. So you'll have the following configuration of cards in front of you: the tied Jack, a face-down card, and a face-up card. The person with the highest face-up card takes all the cards on the table and places them face-down at the bottom of their stack. If the top card is another tie, you place another face-down card, then a face-up card - basically, you keep going until someone wins the war. This is the best and fastest way to accumulate cards. If one of you runs out of cards in the middle of a war, the other player wins.
SPIT
Here's how to play: Spit is a game where you need to try and get rid of all your cards as quickly as possible. Once you shuffle the cards deal them to each player. Each player then deals out five piles of cards in a row in front of himself, with all cards face down. The first pile has one card, the second two cards etc until the fifth pile has five cards. Turn the top card of each pile face up which is known as stockpiles. Each player will have eleven cards remaining in his hand which is known as the spit cards. When both players are ready, they say "spit" together and each player turns his top spit card face up, placing it in the middle of the table between the two rows of stockpiles. These two cards are the "spit piles." Keep on playing as quickly as the players can, using only one hand and moving one card at a time. The goal is to play the 15 cards in your stockpiles onto the spit piles.
Happy Card Playing! :)
