I try to encourage creativity in my children, giving them activities that challenge them to think in new and unusual ways. Often times they are resistant, claiming I try to turn fun time into educational activities time. I’ve had to become sneakier in my approach. I’ve been trying to find fun games that the kids won’t balk at playing but have a creative aspect. My search led me to Morphology and Morphology Junior.
Morphology is designed for teens and adults and must have four or more players. The concept seems simple- draw a word from the deck and have your teammates guess the word before time runs out. Here’s the catch- you have to build the word using game pieces.
I am planning several events for holiday entertaining and plan to pull out Morphology for one of our party games.
Morphology Junior follows the same concept but is designed for ages 8+, meaning it can be played during family game nights for some hilarious results with the kids.
We put Morphology Junior to the test at our home on a family game night. There are over 480 words included in the deck so we had plenty of words to make us put on our thinking caps. The words range from simple ones like spoon or snore to flamingo and unicorn. We used the pieces (they’re over 30) included to build the word. This is not as easy as you might think when you use wooden pegs, smooth rocks and things of this sort. The challenge is animating the pieces to help the teammates guess what you are trying to be. Remember, all this has to be accomplished with in one minute. The first team to reach the lily pad wins the game. Let’s just say my animating skills are not the best!
The entire family pronounced the game “fun” and I got some secret mom points for finding something that encouraged creativity.
Win It!
Two(2) readers will each win one (1) Morphology Game (winner’s choice of Adult or Junior version)
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we play clue.
favorite board game is scrabble and we actually normally do a puzzle with family over the holidays
I love playing Risk with my husband.
Thanks!
My favorite game that my family plays is Balderdash! It is so funny!
I love Monopoly
I love Scrabble
My favorite board game is trivial pursuit.
We love to play The Game of Life.
We love Scrabble Slam
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My favorite is Scrabble.
Scattegories!
Trivial Pursuit
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We play Smashed Potatoes and Candy Land pretty frequently at our house!
Scattegories
love scrabble
Trouble and sorry are big games for us
life
scrabble is played a lot here
Our favorite board game is Trouble
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I always play Apples to Apples with friends
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Scattergories and Scene it.
Thanks for the chance.
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Monopoly, Life, trouble, sorry are our favorite games.
~Sandra U.
Pictionary!
Trivial Pursuit is my favorite and the one I try to get everyone to play
love scattergories and scrabble
We love Scrabble and Yahtzee here!
Our favorite board game to play is Scrabble.
I love trivial pursuit
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i would do a playdate with jr morphology
i’d play with the grandkids
my favorite is monopoly
I would play Jr with the kiddos.
I will play the junior version with my kids
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This sounds like such a great idea and fun game!
My favorite game is Yahtzee
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monopoly has always been my fav. board game
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We like Scattergories
checkers
I have always loved playing Sorry
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Monopoly
I will play with my granddaughter.
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My favorite board game is Clue, though no one will play with me or they make me come in halfway through the game. Will play this with my husband and boys
thank you
scrabble
I would play this with my two boys
The game of life is my favorite
scrabble
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id play with my hubby and kids
My favorite board game is Cranium.
We have just started Friday night game night so I would play Morphology with my husband and sons.
I’m a big fan of Monopoly.
My favorite board game is Operation.
We like Rummikub the most at this point.
monopoly with my family
I will play with my son
We play Sequence a lot. I would play this game with my office staff!
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My favorite is Scrabble. Thanks so much for the fantastic giveaway and happy holidays!
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My favorite board game is clue.
I will play with my kids
i like scrabble
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I will play this with my husband and daughter.
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i will play morphology with my friends when they come over for game night
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We love monopoly. I would play morphology with my family.
My favorite board game is Life
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I love Monopoly
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I would play this with my daughter
My husband.
Monopoly is my favorite game to play
I would play this with my kids wilcarvic
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my favorite game is monopoly