Family game for just turned 4 year old?

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My DS will be just turned 4 and I’d love to buy some games we can all play at Christmas. We have Buckeroo, Pop Up Pirates, Hungry Hippos, jigsaws. Any inspiration gratefully received!

Kerplunk, disney snakes & ladders, frustration and yeti in my spaghetti were all big hits here!

I've just bought doughnutters for my 4 year old. I've tried stuff like snakes and ladders, build a beetle but he just doesn't have the attention span

Uno all day long. My lads loved playing from a very young age. Just needed help fanning the cards.

Dobble is a great game for kids - there are quite a few versions, even one for younger children.

The adults in our house have been known to have a game when the kids are in bed 😆

My 5 year old loves jenga, dobble, the fishing game and dominos (we have a set of giant ones) as well as various orchard toys games, particularly shopping list and a football one that I hate 🙈😂

Cat and Mouth is the best game we've ever had. I recommend it to everyone. It's quite expensive at about £25 but the build quality is really nice. And it. Is. Fun!

Orchard games, shopping list is a good one.
Dobble too, that's a card game but easy to manipulate the game and let them win occasionally to save the strops.

Definitely second the orchard games, especially shopping list. Also there is a gruffalo board game which is great for younger children. Dominoes, jenga, matching games were all popular with my now 5 year old from around age 4.

Ladybird game Orchard Toys.
Mine still loves it years later

Scavenger hunt
Noughts and crosses

Orchard games has some good ones.
outfoxed is lovely as a collaborative family game.
Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza - it says 6+ but my four year old could enjoy it.
My First Carcassonne has been a hit with all my children aged 4.

I heard grabolo is good.

Bear hunt is ok

I look for games up to 6+, they seem right developmentally. He likes Dobble, Jenga, Uno.

We loved Dobble when ours were that age and had probably started Uno too.

My not-too-bright nearly 5 year old loves the Orchard games and Kerplunk.

He also loves Marble runs and jigsaws.

Zingo bingo is a favourite in our house

Dobble and Jenga are good cross generational games.

Definitely Dobble.
Dinosaurs Galore
Labyrinth
Dominoes

Hanging Monkey's Game
Dobble
Orchard games

Colour brain

Is it the football one that is basically a naff version of snakes and ladders?! (I also hate it 😬)

Candyland. Ours was from America, we still play it 15 years later.

We picked up "reindeer plop drop" for a fiver in Tesco this week - four little beanbags with reindeer poo pics on and targets that you place around the room and you have to each hold a beanbag in your thighs and race to your target to get it to land on it.

Given it a practice run and dd age three thinks it's hysterical and can't stop showing people!

I just introduced my nearly 4 year old DGD to Tummy Ache. She loves it just as much as her mum and auntie did at the same age.

Thanks so much everyone! Taking notes 😀