It’s C week and we had a game day!
First up was Cootie, a classic Hasbro game.
- For Ages 3-6 yrs
- Mix and match to create crazy critters
- Perfect for younger children because there is no reading required
- Two to Four players
The alphagirls enjoyed playing it but we had to modify the game some. You have to roll a dice to get the pieces. 1 for a head, 2 for a body, 3 for head piece, 4 for eyes, 5 for mouth, and 6 for legs. So… to complete your Cootie you would need to roll 6 sixes! We gave up and just built our critters. It would make a nice speech therapy game—say some words, get a piece.
Next up: Hi Ho Cherry-O another classic Hasbro game.
- Early childhood board game
- Race to be the first to have 10 cherries in your basket
- Introduces kids to counting
- Reading not required
- Children try to be first to pick their trees clean, filling their buckets with cherries. Just watch out for the dog, the bird, and the spilled bucket!
Alphagirls love this game but have started to…. gasp.. cheat! When I turn my head they seem to spin put four fruit pieces in their bucket! And so begins another lesson on being honest when playing games. Another good speech game!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar was the next game we played!
- Move shapes and colors into place to collectively make a butterfly
- Game board, 20 shapes in 5 colors, 1 spinner, and 4 caterpillar playing figures
- 1-4 players
Thankfully, we borrowed this game from Grandma’s preschool and it will be going back. It is a cooperative game… so there is no winner. I am not sure we even played it the right way. It is somewhat confusing. I don’t like kids games that require reading a lot of directions to figure it out. Anyway… I think we figured it out, but we ended up putting it away halfway through because we were all bored. It is disappointing, especially since we love the book so much.
One of the alphagirls was done after the last game so I just had one to play with. We played Candy Land Castle:
- Hasbro Candy Land Castle Game is fun, colorful and educational
- Simple matching game involving shapes and colors
- Engaging educational game can be played alone or with others
- Comes with King Kandy Castle, brightly colored tokens, gingerbread kid gameboards
This is one of my favorite early games. There is a candy cane lever you pull down and a plastic shape comes out of the castle. The girls love pulling that lever! Then they match it to their gingerbread man. We are sad there are three gingerbread boys and one girl… sometimes that equals a fight with two girls! It’s great for early learning: turn taking, matching, shapes, & colors!
Next up: Matchin’ Middles or the Cookie Game as we like to call it!
- The Fisher-Price Oreo Matchin' Middles Game is a classic memory-match game
- Comes with a blue squared plastic "cookie jar" storage container with it's own flip-off lid and 12 Oreo cookies (24 cookie halves)
- Each cookie has a different shape in the middle, 2 cookie halves with matching shapes inside fit together
- Players turn the cookie halves face down, then take turns trying to find matching cookie halves
- When the cookies are all gone, the player with the most cookies wins
- The game is for 2 - 4 children ages 3 - 7 years old
Alphagirls love this matching game and they can use it in their play kitchen, too! Don’t you want to come over and play with that sweet little face? :)
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