Early Games

Sounds on the Farm Bingo

Clear and realistic sounds! This game helps children learn to listen carefully and make connections between farm animals and the sounds they make. The CD includes 14 farm animal sounds, each repeated twice in random order. When players hear a sound that is produced by one of the animals on the game board, they place a token on that picture. Includes 12 photographic game boards (5.5"x8.5"), 120 cardboard squares to use as game tokens, and a CD with narrative and sounds. No reading required. For 1-12 players. From 4 years.

G662		$15.95

Crazy Creatures

A listening game of mixed-up farm friends! It's chaos on the farm; the cows, horses, sheep, and pigs are all mixed up. Their fronts and backs don't match - and you must fix the mess! Press the barn, listen for an animal sound, and take a matching animal part to make a new creature. If the parts of your creature don't match, trade with another player. You might create a horse-cow or a pig-sheep, but your goal is to make a complete and correct animal - front, middle, and back! A great game for cooperative play. No reading required. Includes a colorful farm game board, 20 animal parts, press-and-play "animal sounds" barn, farmer, 4 fence pieces, and an illustrated guide. Requires 3 button-cell batteries. Board is 17"x 14". For 2- 4 players. From 4 years.
WARNING: Choking Hazard - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

G987		$26.95

Colorful Caterpillars

A fun game that promotes fine motor skills and recognition of color and shape. Children match shapes and colors from a rainbow assortment of wood pieces. A roll of the two dice shows children what shape and color to next thread onto their caterpillar. The first child to thread six shapes wins. It can also be a free-play threading activity. Contents: 4 caterpillars, 42 wooden shapes, one color die and one shape die. Caterpillar is 8"L. For 1-4 players. From 3 years.
WARNING: Choking Hazard - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

G127		$21.95

Thomas' Great Race

A unique, fun game that develops basic counting skills, sorting and color matching skills. Answer counting questions on cards, such as "How many people?" or "How many blue engines?". Flip the card over to check your answer. Answer correctly and you earn a block of "coal" with a number that matches your answer. "Shovel" the coal into the space under the track and the coal pushes your engine up the hill. When an engine reaches the top of the hill, it will race down to the finish line! Contents: Race track, 4 engines, 24 question cards, and 30 coal blocks. 19"L x 7"W x 2"H. For 2-4 players. From 3 years.

G087		$28.95

Dress-A-Bear

Race around the board collecting magnetic clothes to dress your bear. Children enjoy mixing and matching the magnetic clothes to create different outfits in each new game. While playing, they learn about dressing, colors, turn taking and completing a task. No reading required. Contents: game board, 20 magnetic clothing pieces, 4 playing bears with magnetic bases, and spinner. Bears measure 2"x1.5". Game board is 12"x9". For 1-4 players. From 3 years.
WARNING: Choking Hazard - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

G379		$14.95

Picture Word Lotto

This game is designed to assist young children with object and word recognition and is great for beginning readers. Pictures are clear and colorful. Children can play cooperatively and work together to match the picture word cards to the playing boards. Includes 4 double-sided game boards, 36 picture word cards and suggestions for different ways to play. 2-4 players. From 3 years.

G094		$12.95

Ear Tug

A unique game that helps develop the sense of touch, shape and color recognition. Children need to recognize, by touch, the correct ears for the animals on the cards. Contents: 9 animal cards, 21 wooden ears, and 1 cloth bag. Ears measure from 1" to 1.5" wide. For 2-4 players. From 3 years.
WARNING: Choking Hazard - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

G945		$19.95

Find the Shape

A tactile game of identifying objects by touch. Each wooden shape is placed in one of the blue bags. One card is drawn and the children feel the outside of each bag with their fingertips to find the bag that contains the corresponding wooden shape. The game can be played by one child, or kids can play together in a cooperative or competitive way. Includes 10 bags, 13 wooden pieces, and 18 cards. Bags are 4"x 4". Cards are 3"x 3". From 3 years.
WARNING: Choking Hazard - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

G716		$22.95

First Game of Shapes & Colors

A nice way to introduce colors and shapes to young children! Kids will be attracted to the bright colors and delightful designs on the easy-to-hold wooden game pieces. Simply use the game pieces and double-sided boards to work on early color and shape recognition, or use in a more advanced game format to teach young children about playing games with rules. Includes 3 double-sided game boards, 15 game pieces (5 each in 3 different colors), and two dice - one depicts the shapes and the other colors. For 1-3 children. Game boards are 8" square. From 2 years.

G646		$28.95

Finders Keepers

Find the hidden objects! Choose 3 picture cards from the pile. Then all players, at once, hurry to locate and place colored chips on the matching pictures on the game board. Whoever is successful gets to claim the picture card. The game board pieces can be switched around, so the board never looks the same twice, making it challenging to play again and again! Kids can work on visual skills, object recognition, vocabulary, and matching skills while having fun and interacting with others. Circular game board is 19"D, game pieces are about 1". For 2-4 players. From 4 years.
WARNING: Choking Hazard - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

G084		$22.95

Pre-School Lotto Game

A combination of lotto and memory game! Colorful cards feature beautiful illustrations of familiar objects and animals. Players turn cards over as in memory games, until they find matching cards to all the illustrations on their game board. Categorization skills are also reinforced, as the images on each game board reflect a different theme: wild animals, farm animals, pets, fruits and vegetables, modes of transportation, and toys. Includes 6 boards (8"x 6"), and 36 cards (2"x 2").
WARNING: Choking Hazard - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

G492		$14.95

Where Do I Live?

In this memory game, players take turns flipping over cards to match each animal with its home. The 24 cards are large and colorful. A fun game to enhance vocabulary and memory skills. For 2-4 players. Animal circle cards are 3"D, home square cards are 4"W. From 4 years.

G399		$14.95

Hear & Go Seek

Match everyday sounds or animal sounds to the colorful photographs that appear on each lotto board. These games encourage active listening and concentration, develop sound discrimination which is an important pre-reading skill, and encourage observation and matching skills. These games can accommodate small or large group play up to 12 players, or can be used by a single player to reinforce visual and auditory vocabulary recognition. Each game includes 12 game boards, a CD featuring 36 sounds, 120 plastic counters, and an instruction sheet with suggestions for additional vocabulary-building activities. Game boards are 8" square.
WARNING: Choking Hazard - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

G318	Everyday Sounds	$13.95
G365	Animal Sounds	$13.95