New Favorite

Sound Bingo is our new favorite game.  The game is made by Kindermusik and available at amazon.com.  My sister told me that my mom had gotten the game for her kids and it was a lot of fun.  So for Christmas it was one of the ideas I gave grammie for the kids.  Well it is such a hit.  In the box is a CD and each track on the CD is a sound which corresponds to a picture on the game board.  For instance a kitten meowing or a bell ringing.  On the game it says ages 3 and up and the little marker pieces are small but made out of cardboard.  Griffin loves to play and he is pretty good at recognizing the sounds.  Griffin's favorite sound is the fire truck and Sydney loves the bag pipes.  We have played several times and I enjoy it as much as the kids.  They get so excited when they have a bingo, although we have to help Griffin recognize that he has four in a row.  I would highly recommend this game and I may use it a a gift idea in the future!  Do you have any favorite games for children?

Enchanted Forest and Oatmeal

Have you ever played Enchanted Forest?  If you have not you are missing out!  We had this game growing up and it was a favorite.  Just having the world ENCHANTED in the name makes it special!  The game is made by Ravensburger and I just love their games and puzzles.  My parents bought this for Syd for Christmas and her and I played on afternoon.
Under each tree is a picture and you have to travel around the board peeking under trees and remember which item is where so that when the card is up in the castle you can travel to the castle and reveal where the item is.  The first person to get 3 item cards wins.

It is great for learning to add- each time Sydney rolled I had her count the dots on the dice and then count her spaces.

It is definitely a challenge to remember what picture is under each tree.

while we played enchanted forest Griffin played oatmeal

and boy did he have fun!

does your family have any favorite games?