"Board" games for toddlers?

Re: "Board" games for toddlers?

• Cherryblossoms07 member

  March 2013

  DD just started getting into board games.  She has Memory (we play with only about half the cards), Busytown (it is a very highly rated game for toddlers and I would recommend it), Candy land, Let's go fishin, and Elefun.  Some obviously are not board games but she enjoys them all. 
  

  

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• MrsWindyCity member

  March 2013

  We play Hi-Ho Cherry-O, a memory game (we have Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site) and Uno Moo. The latter is pretty much impossible to play without the toddler cheating but he likes it, lol.

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• 1026pumpkin member

  March 2013

  We also have the construction site memory game, and he likes that, but we only use a few of the cards at a time.  He also really likes Don't Break the Ice- I don't think he totally gets the point, but he loves hammering away at the ice cubes.

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• saturdaynightdoubletree member

  March 2013

  Not technically a board game, but my kids LOVE cranium hullabaloo. Reinforces shapes, colors, and objects... Plus gets them moving.
  We also play memory and hungry hungry hippos.

  

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• bakerlm member

  March 2013

  Ds really likes Don't Break the Ice and "Yummy, Yummy Hippos."  We also have Candyland but he is not interested in it yet.

  

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• groovygrl member

  March 2013

  Some of it depends on your LO... my twins are 3 1/2 and DD has way more interest & attention span for games than DS. However, he will play zingo (we do it team style, like we all look for the pictures on each other's cards, etc), Busytown (we love Richard Scarry so that helps, and he is not big on moving around the board but we all love searching for the hidden pictures), Hi Ho Cherry-O (though he often bails halfway through that) and Uno Moo, sort of (like PP said, that is kind of an easy to cheat game and also they don't really get all the rules yet like draw 2 and 'wild' but it is getting better. I wish the case had a better design where you reach in to grab the animals but aren't staring right at them...).

  We own Chutes & Ladders and Candyland but really neither of them have the attention for those &the moving X spaces thing is still a little tough for them to grasp. (and frankly I don't have the patience/attention for it either LOL.)
  

  We have quite a number of memory games (Cars, Thomas, dinosaurs, busytown...) and DS definitely does not have the ability to do that even remotely at all close to the rules, DD is a little better, they both just want to turn them all over & look at them, even if I only put like 6 or 8 down...but we come up w/ alternative ways to do it like put them all face up & race to find pairs, etc.
  

  We also have Elefun- fun to run around but even I can barely actually catch those things haha. 

  Got this alligator one for xmas, I'm blanking on name... blow up dice & a large mat, you roll the dice and move to the shape or color on the mat...they didn't show much interest in it but it seems fun & age appropriate
  

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• Christmasbaby18 member

  March 2013

  Candyland and Memory are DD's favorites and she can actually play them correctly.  She also likes Trouble and Cootie.  We have Chutes and Ladders too, but imo that game is way too hard for a 3 year old (DD doesn't quite get it).

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