What are the best board games for a 4 year old please??

[Littlefrenchmummy]

Im not sure which to get for my son?

Mouse trap? Snakes and ladders? Ludo?

Help help please which have you found were the most fun ? xx

Greedy Gorillas
Hungry Dinosaurs
Ludo

They need to be fairly simple and not last too long!!
Orchard Games do lots of fun games that are educational too - my DCs always enjoyed those.
Mouse trap is a disaster for little ones - it takes hours to set up, ages to play, and is prone to be knocked over half way through
Lego do some good games you have to build first.
Not board games exactly, but ELC used to do lots of games which involved 'fishing' for things or hitting things etc - much more fun for little ones

My four year old loves most of the orchard games, our favourites are shopping list, animal safari, and gingerbread man. She also loves snakes and ladders (actually the massive peppa pig version which is shorter than the original). To be honest, we have a lot of the orchard games and they all get played quite a lot!

Orchard Games

www.orchardtoys.com/games

Snakes and ladders
Ludo
Jenga
Hungry Hippos
Orchard toys three little pigs game

^all these are popular with my 4 year old.

For Christmas I've got him Guess Who, Connect 4 and a draughts/checkers game so we'll see how he goes with that.

Have a look on the Christmas thread, I posted the same a couple of days ago and there were loads of great ideas

thank you all very much ! Im so excited about the idea of all playing a board game together !

x x x

I was thinking of guess who for my 4 nearly 5 yo

The gruffalos child big bad mouse board game. My dc love it

We have a lovely one from orchard games called monster bingo. My Dd loves it.

my two boys (5 and 4) absolutly love Monopoly junior.
They like Guess who too.
I have tried to teach them battleship but they are too young.
I have tried Pictionnary but my 4 years old doesnt like to draw that much so it is a bit limited...

Have fun!

And Connect 4 too! They like it but they are not very good at it!

Snakes and Ladders
Jenga
Frustration

Chess (this is mumsnet )

My just turned 5 year old is obsessed with board games especially orchard toys gingerbread man & 3 little pigs but also likes snakes & ladders, dominoes, monopoly (if we keep it short!) guess who, happy families & now he's starting to read a bit more he's getting into top trumps.

Oh and frustration (the one with the genie) is a favourite too

Definately Snakes and Ladders and Hungry Hippos.

Amazing thank you ! Im just on amazon ordering presents. Got him snakes and ladders!