Please help me to find the best board games for children..

[sunandmoon]

I want to get my nephew 8 years old and his sister 5 years each a board game for Xmas.
Any ideas of your children or even yourselves favourite board games.. but nothing electronic!!!!! Thank you

Any of the cranium games(cadoo,hullabaloo,balloon lagoon)
Monopoly/Monopoly junior
Scooby Doo haunted castle
I'm sure there are loads more but my brains gone!

Guess who
jenga (have heard its good)
Cluedo
Monopoly(loved this as a child)

we ahve a wooden snakes and laders/ludo set from woolies which my 4 year old loves....

also...
frsutration
half price right now

Ours - same ages - play
Jenga
Cranium Hullabaloo
Orchard Games such as Pop to the Shops and Tummy Ache
Great Game of Britain
Mousetrap
Scrabble or a version of.

Thinking of getting a version of Risk for ds who is 8 - The Entertainer have an offer on the Narnia version - or another of the Cranium games but not sure which possibly Ballooon Lagoon .

snkaes and ladders and ludo

Rush Hour Traffic Jam - do a search on amazon and read all the 5* reviews.

I loved Game of Life when I was a kid - can you still get it?

LIZS - Great Game of Britain! haven't played that since was a child. Off to have a look for a set right now

mine (7&4) really like snakes and ladders, mouse trap, operation, guess who, junoir monopoly and kerrplunk.

Do look around because lots of places have 3 for 2 offers on games (saw it in borders today.)

orchard games-shopping list game is popular with my 5 year old.

Thank you thank you....

oh one word of warning - if you are buying games for your own children make sure you can bear playing them yourself - I dread mousetrap and rue the day I got it for them!

One game we have recently rediscovered that ds now loves is dominoes.

monopoly, risk, cluedo, guess who, woolies bingo game (surprsingly good fun)

DD has just been given this for her birthday and loves it:-

sillyspaghetti

Good thread - ideas for presents.

Is Silly Spaghetti fussy to put together?

Personally I can't stand mousetrap. Too fiddly. Traps don't stay in place (I understand we have the "new" version) We prefer Rumble in the Jungle - which stays out for a couple of weeks at a time. Ongoing favourites for DS (5) is snakes & ladders, dominoes, and Guess Who (several different versions! - might have to get the Marvel superheroes version next....)