Here's a quick two-person game that's easy enough for little kids yet offers enough strategy to be played over and over.

Draw the board shown on a piece of paper, marking a dot at each intersection (eight around the edges and one in the middle). Give each player three matching game pieces(we used cotton balls glued to pennies and marked with dabs of paint). As in tic-tac-toe, the object is to get three pieces in a row. To begin, Player 1 places a piece on any dot, then Player 2 goes and they continue alternating until all the pieces are down. If no one lands three pieces in a row, on the next turn a player may slide his or her piece to the next dot, trying to make a row of three. Play continues until one person makes tic-tac-snow.

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