Children's Games - Which ones do you like?

[OllieWollieWoo]

Has anyone got any good suggestions for some games we can get to play play with our 2 small children (under 5) - not sure what would be suitable and age appropriate!

Already have the Whose Nose game from ELC but need some more games for wet Sunday afternoons for when Mum and Dad are exhausted from hide and seek and need a sit down round the table with a cuppa!!! Thank you!

Mine like lucky ducks, where you have to pick up a duck thats going round a pond and match the colours/shapes on the bottom

Cariboo is great from age 3 onwards.

Hulabaloo and elefun are good if you want something a bit active. Even small children can play them

Tummy ache has been popular here for ages.

Hungry Hippos is good too (but noisy).

Would also agree with Cariboo. My two love it and they are 4 and 2

Try the Orchard Toys website, which has the Tummy Ache game and loads of others for this sort of age.

These are great suggestions - thank you! Especially like the look of Cariboo!

mine loved those kind of picture lotto games or ones where you have a spinner and collect farm animals or the such like.

mainly from orchard or early learning.

also loved snakes and ladders - my board from when i was little.

i think with this ages the simpler the better!

DS1 (now 4.5) loves snakes and ladders - it's a bit painful to begin with (throwing the counter not the dice, moving the dice, not the counter etc aww bless) but now he's really into it and it's great for counting and he's trying to teach DS2 (2.25)

get box lid and they HAVE to throw the dice into the box lid otherwise they miss a turn (oh god I am bitch controlling mother aren't i!)

ours are 6 & 9 now but they used to love 'pop up pirate'

I second Orchard Toys - Insey Winsey Spider is a good one to start with.

Another fan of orchard toys too, we have most of the range as they are fab. Most have two levels so that you can have an easy and hard version dependent on age.

They dont go on for ages either like some games so they dont get as bored. No major set up either once the initial bit has been done.

Elefun
Tummyache
Dotty dinosaurs
Snap
Hungry hippos

I spy( with colours not letters if necessary)
Hide and Seek
Tag
Musical bumps
I know these are not board games but my Dc love them