What you need to know: Pengoloo is a simple memory game for preschoolers. The penguins are adorable and super motivating and engaging for kids. The more kids are motivated to play, the more they will learn. So YeY for penguins!!!
Frida's Fruit Fiesta Game
What you need to know: Frida’s Fruit Fiesta is a simple Bingo board game for preschoolers that focuses on letter recognition and fine motor development. It is one of the games from the Educational Insights line that incorporates the use of tweezers. Tweezers are helpful for kids because they build muscles in the hands, specifically in the thumb, index, and middle fingers which are needed for holding and using a pencil and scissors.
Wild Rainbow Wooden Balancing Game
Where's Mr. Wolf?
What you need to know: Where’s Mr. Wolf is a cooperative memory game that requires sustained attention and concentration to play. The goal is to help the animals reach their barns before the wolf gets them. To do this players take turns flipping over the tokens with pictures of animals on the back and inserting them into the matching barns.
Fish Feud Game
Gumball Grab Game
Elephant's Trunk
Uh-Oh Hippo!
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What you need to know: Uh-Oh Hippo! is a super fun and interactive memory game for preschoolers. It comes with a Hippo character who has an open and close mouth feature and 18 munchies (see below).
To Play: First, ask your child to name all the munchies.
Then feed the Hippo by adding one munchie to every slot of the Hippo’s mouth
Make sure to look closely at what the Hippo is eating, and try to remember everything that is in his mouth.
Hint: To make it easier to remember, ask the child to name all the objects out loud.
When ready, close Hippo’s mouth, and then open it back up.
Uh-Oh, but when the Hippo opens up his mouth again, one of the munchies goes missing.
See if your child can remember which one the Hippo swallowed.
To check if they are correct, press on the bird on the Hippo’s tail,
and the missing munchie will fall out!
Were you correct?
The person who names 3 munchies correct first, wins the game.
Skills this works on: Visual and working memory, vocabulary, concentration, taking turns, following directions, and fine motor skills,
Why I love this: Memory games are the best, but its often tricky to find new memory game concepts. I was excited to find and try this one. The game is easy to learn and a ton of fun. It will have children thinking hard while having a good time.
Tip: If your kids love the game, you can apply this concept to other toys or objects in the house to challenge their memory skills in new ways.
If you’d like to learn more or purchase Uh-Oh Hippo, click here.
Stack Up!
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What you need to know: Stack up is a cooperative board game that incorporates many important skills that preschoolers need to learn. It comes with instructions for 3 different game variations so that it can grow with the child.
Stack Up! comes with a double-sided game board, 12 challenge cards,
12 Blocks
a spinner, a stack smasher, and 2 Stack Sticks with wood and foam ends.
The idea is to work with another player to stack the blocks before the Stack Smasher walks across the game board.
But….
Stacking the blocks comes with a twist!
Players will have to follow the fun instructions on the challenge cards to stack the blocks.
Read some of the challenge cards below
The simpler version of the game allows children to stack with their hands. The intermediate version uses the wood ends of the sticks, and the challenging version requires players to use the foam ends of the sticks.
Skills this works on: Working together, patience, perseverance, eye-hand coordination, following directions, gross motor skills, and concentration.
You can learn more and purchase Stack Up! here.