Best Games For 3y Olds (And Some 4y)

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  • WImom
    Advanced Daycare.com Member
    • Jun 2010
    • 1639
    #1

    Best Games For 3y Olds (And Some 4y)

    We play a board game or puzzles every day from 4:00-4:30 while everyone is getting picked up. Most of the kids are three. I'm getting sick of playing the same games and want to buy some new ones.

    What are your kids favorites?
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    • ABCDaycareMN
      Mommy to 2
      • Oct 2012
      • 371
      #2
      Elefun is a favorite.
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        • Willow
          Advanced Daycare.com Member
          • May 2012
          • 2683
          #3
          We handmade a new favorite just last week.

          I cut fish shapes out of heavy rainbow colored cardstock and let the kids put a sticker of letter of the alphabet on each one. Then I slipped a bobby pin where the fish's mouth would be. Attached a string to a dowel, and at the end of the string a magnet. Scattered the fish in a "pond" (blue blanket) and then the kids took turns fishing. When they catch one I ask them the color, put them in a big line building the alphabet as we go and then sing the ABC's together when all are caught.

          Another - because hide and seek is a favorite but I don't really have any places to hide in my house I use seasonal objects to hide instead. During Christmas it was a small bag of wooden ornaments, right now it's plastic snowflakes and wooden hearts, around spring will be a basket of fake flowers or plastic Easter eggs....that sort of thing. Kids sit, cover their eyes and practice counting while I hide the items around the house.

          As far as commercial games Leap Frog has a great bingo game with four variations (numbers, letters, animals and shapes), Don't Spill the Beans, Cootie, Jenga, and Hi Ho Cherry O are favorites of kiddos around that age here.
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            • daycare
              Advanced Daycare.com *********
              • Feb 2011
              • 16259
              #4
              Hide the (). We hide the mitten

              We made a paper mitten.

              I hide it while the kids close their eyes.

              We sing have you seen my missing mitten song as we all look for it.

              No joke we played at least 4 times a week since the Start of the month for about 45 min. The kids LOVe it....
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                • MamaBearCanada
                  Blessed
                  • Jun 2012
                  • 704
                  #5
                  My kids love hi ho cherryo too
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                    • 3amazingkiddos
                      New Daycare.com Member
                      • Apr 2011
                      • 40
                      #6
                      We play memory, break the ice, flipping frogs, candy land, ants in the pants, and hungry hungry hippos to name a few. I also have a big selection of 24 piece puzzles that they enjoy doing.
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