Board games (with my group of 5-7 year olds)

• Chess- have to sit with whoever's playing since no one knows all the rules/they're unwilling to read the directions or are unable to read them
• Mancala
• Checkers
• Candy Land
• Break the Ice (but we lost a piece of the game, so right now they can't play)

Other games I wish I could play with them but for which my kids can't understand the rules/the math's too hard

• Monopoly (Oh wow this game is ridiculously hard for them/they make the hugest mess with the money I have ever seen and do not even attempt to put it back properly because they truly are that wack!)
• Phase 10
• Phase 10 Dice
• Yahtzee
• Dominoes
• Scrabble

Games we can play with my children in the gym

• Duck, duck goose
• Scrambled eggs
• Poop deck
• Mingle
• Steal the Bacon
• Tag (all versions)
• Tug of War games
• Up-Down
• Simon Says
• Red Light, Green Light
• Musical Chairs (Regular or scattered musical chairs which becomes a group game with the other age groups)

Games that I feel like they can't handle without freaking out but that I sometimes can enjoy when others play

• Shark (many of the kids cheat and also they run over each other and seem like they're going to fall down and cry any minute)
• Relay races because inevitably one of the members of the team doesn't want to play and ruins the game for the rest of the team
• Follow the leader because they can't pay attention and then convince themselves that other people are screwing up
• Articles because many of them don't know much in general, so they get sad when they don't know the answers and start complaining to me about how no one is picking them to go to the center
• Volleyball (not one of the children in my group is really capable of returning the ball even though it's only a beach ball and quite simple to hit over the net; also the girls completely ignore the game except when it's time to serve)
• Kickball- so apparently many of the kids in my group have made it this long without learning the basic rules of kickball. Like 3 of them literally forgot to run to the next base when someone else would kick, thus getting both of them out. Also Dwight and Jaylin kicked and got out because they didn't run to 1st base which just seems obvious. While kickball can at least be pretty entertaining for older kids, it would seem that my children are either too slow or too uninterested to make the game have any semblance of success.
• Twister- They fall all over each other completely unnecessarily, and it just becomes this ridiculous, problematic game in which everyone is really awkwardly on top of other people.