Gift Guide: Super Duper Publications Educational Games (Review & Giveaway)

"Sharon and Thomas Webber founded Super Duper® Publications in 1986 with two products and two types of stickers.
Sharon started creating easy-to-use therapy materials while working as a Speech-Language Pathologist in the public schools. Thomas was a practicing attorney before focusing his talents on developing therapy materials also. Fast forward 25 years - today, we're making hundreds of creative, colorful educational and therapy materials that you and your children will love. (Believe it or not, we have as much fun making them as your kids will have learning with them!)"

Super Duper Publications products are perfect gifts for your kids this year because they are educational and a lot of fun. I had the delight of reviewing three of their products, Jeepers Peepers - The Ask & Answer Question Game, Party Pups - The Game of Prepositional Fun & Anytime Go-Togethers Super Photo Fun Deck.

The first game, Jeepers Peepers is a question game with 101 photo cards in five different categories: Animals, Food, People, Things, and Transportation. The game comes with 6 pairs of Jeepers Peepers glasses, "My Cue Cards", 101 photo cards (4" x 5"), Spinner and bingo chips, and an Instruction booklet.

This game "builds questioning skills, describing skills, categorizing skills, problem solving skills, and more!"

The rules to the game are very simple. Everyone wears a pair of glasses and a card is attached to the top without the person seeing what is on the card. After everyone has their glasses on and a card is placed on their heads, you start asking questions until you figure out what is on your glasses. The glasses are absolutely hilarious, we laughed so hard!

We went around the circle, and the first person to guess the right answer won. The round went for quite a while, so we didn't end up using the spinner and the chips. But, if you plan on playing a few rounds the spinner and chips would be a lot of fun. We had a blast playing this game as adults, so I am sure our kids will love it too when they are a little older.

 

The second product we reviewed is the Anytime Go-Togethers Super Photo Fun Deck! My daughter loves this set of cards and asks to play with them every night. The deck of cards includes 84 photo card pairs and a handy tin to keep them in. I really have enjoyed the photos on these cards because their is such a variety and the photos are very clear and colorful!

  My husband and I play a memory game with my daughter every night, which has been great for her.  She just has so much fun and wants to play it over and over again. I have noticed her vocabulary getting better and she surprises me every time we play because she remembers where the matching card is better than I do! What I really like about this set is that I can switch out the cards every night when we play memory making it feel like a whole new game.

Lastly, we reviewed Party Pups. This game is super simple and is a great way to learn prepositions and creating sentences. "Players take turns choosing preposition cards, identifying the preposition on the cards, and using them in sentences. Players spin the electronic spinner and collect doggie treats which they place on their game boards. The player with the most doggie treats wins!"

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Gift Guide: Reverse Charades Original Edition and Junior Edition (Review and Giveaway) CLOSED

"Reverse Charades is a hilarious twist on a classic stand-by (where one person acts out words for the team to guess-boring)! With Reverse Charades, the entire team has 60 seconds to act out as many words as one person can guess. It’s a fast-paced, fiercely fun team competition that’s an absolute riot with families, work teams, school groups, party-goers or among a few close friends. But be warned…you’re in for big and dangerous doses of fun!"

Get your party started with Reverse Charades! If this is not a fun game, then I don't know what it. Reverse Charades will get you laughing so hard your stomach will hurt.

I love charades, so I knew I would love Reverse Charades Original Edition! I received both Reverse Charades Original Edition and Reverse Charades Junior Edition. Both are extremely fun to play and easy to understand. Instead of one person acting out the word, your whole team acts out the word for one of your teammates! This is an active game that will get everyone participating at once. We had the opportunity of playing both Reverse Charades Original Edition and Reverse Charades Junior Edition during the holidays with our family, and I was surprised at what everyone came up with. Shy relatives didn't seem so shy after playing this fun game because everyone is acting at the same time. The game includes 720 cards, so you will never run out of words to act out. Reverse Charades Original Edition is for ages 6+, so even the kids can join the fun. Reverse Charades Junior Edition is very similar to the Original but with more suitable words for children.

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Now the power of an unforgettable party fits in the palm of your hand. Whether planning a vacation getaway or creating a game night on the fly, the new app will supercharge the fun! Instantly accessible and weightless, the new app provides over 1,000 words from the original edition and new themed editions (Awesome 80s and Sports fans). The new Reverse Charades mobile edition is available in both the Apple App Store and the Droid Marketplace."

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Gift Guide: Slooooks! (Review and Giveaway) CLOSED

"Spin the spinners to determine the color and the first letter of the object you will seek. Flip the timer and start looking. If you find it before the timer runs out, slide open one of the eyes!"

Going to the doctors was always a little scary when I was a kid. My mom helped pass the time while we sat in the waiting room by playing I Spy and we loved it!

I received Slooooks! to review and was very excited to play it with my family! Slooooks! is the game of I Spy but with a twist!

Slooooks! comes with a colorful, fun playing board, which has pictures of people wearing sunglasses, a timer, and two spinners attached to the board. One spinner has colors and the other has letters.

The game is very simple, first you choose an area where you want to play. This can be anywhere you want to play. Then each player chooses an eye color. You then spin both spinners and look for an object that is the color your spinner is on and starts with the letter you landed on. You have until the timer runs out to find an object, and if you do, you get to flip open one of your eyes! When all of your eyes are open you win!

The board is so fun and can be brought with you anywhere. It folds nicely in half, with a magnet holding it together. The only pieces is the timer, and it loops into the elastic for easy storage. My daughter had a blast playing with me and asks to play it often. She is a little young so we only played with the color spinner. We would spin it, then we would take turns looking for something that was that color. She knows most of her colors, but I can see her brain working hard as we play, so it's definitely great for her!

Other fun games to play:
1. Speed Slooooks! See how many objects you can find before the timer runs out. Then open up that many eyes instead of one.
2. Challenge Slooooks! Everyone plays at the same time. The first person to find an object opens an eye.
3. Mind Slooooks! Spin the spinners, then flip the timer and instead of looking for an object, use your brain to come up with 3 correct items before the timer runs out. If you do, open 1 eye.

There are several things you can do with this game, it's definitely a game your kids will love!

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Gift Guide: Morphology Games (Review and Giveaway)

"Morphology is a fun, creative and challenging party
board game combining simple shapes, words and
players’ imagination and creativity.
Using wooden sticks, glass beads and colored cubes
“Morphologists” build words such as butterfly or
airplane for their teammates to guess.
The board takes unique twists turns challenging
players to build their eyes closed or using only the
string--leaving everyone laughing out loud!" 

I grew up playing a lot of games, and loved the feeling of coming together as a family. Morphology is a great family game that will get everyone laughing! I had the pleasure of reviewing Morphology over the holidays and was pleasantly surprised at how fun it was!

 Even if you don't think you are very creative, this game will pull it out of you! Learning how to play takes no time at all. 

Here is how you play the game:

1. DIVIDE INTO TEAMS.

Each team chooses a Morphologist. The Morphologist is the builder each round and rotates with each team.
2. DRAW A WORD FROM THE DECK.

Without talking, the Morphologist must ‘morph’ the pieces into the word.
3. USE THE SHAPES AND PIECES TO BUILD THE WORD.
4. GET YOUR TEAMMATES TO GUESS WITHIN THE ALLOTTED TIME.

Each time the team correctly guesses the word in the 1 minute allowed, they move forward one lily pad. Then the die is passed to the left.
5. IF YOU GUESS CORRECTLY, MOVE YOUR TEAM FROG FORWARD ONE LILY PAD. THE FIRST TEAM TO REACH THE FINISH WINS!

But be ready-the board will take twists and turns as you hop your way through! When you land on a lily pad that says roll, you must roll the die and watch your creativity and laughter grow!  

 The Rules When You Roll The Die!

Roll a 1: Everybody plays: each team chooses a Morphologist to build (they are limited to 5 pieces each). 

Roll a 2: EYES CLOSED: BUILD A WORD WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED! 

 Roll a 3: tuck your ‘dominant’ hang behind your back and challenge yourself to build using only one hand! 

Roll a 4 String only: Build using only the string. 

Roll a 5: Your Pick 5: Before looking at the word, pick 5 pieces and use only these five to build the word. 

Roll a 6: Interception: You can use all of the pieces, but guess well because if you don’t guess, the other team will get a chance to guess the word correctly and steal a point.

 When I took all the pieces out of the box, I was thinking there was no way these pieces could create what was on the cards and that it was going to be too hard! As we began, yes it took a little bit of time to get the brain going, but once the creativity started we were laughing so hard! A lot of the lily pads on the board are labeled roll. When it is your turn to be the Morphologist, you roll the die and follow the rules for that number. My husband rolled 2 so many times it was hilarious. He had to build the word with his eyes closed, and of course it did not look anything close to what he thought he was building. It was very funny!

The only change I would make to the game is, it comes with a string but the string is too stiff to bend into the shape you need, so we switched it out for a more flexible string which worked a lot better. Other then that, the game is perfect, and a blast to play!

 It was a really close game, but unfortunately my team lost! Everyone had great things to say about the game, especially my brother who is very picky when it comes to playing games!

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Gift Guide: Peaceable Kingdom Review & GIVEAWAY (closed)

 Every year for the holidays, along with each person's individual gits, we always try to get a few great gifts for the entire family.  If you have younger kids like mine, then take a look at some great games from Peaceable Kingdom!

Besides their great diaries, cards, stickers, learning sets, and more, Peaceable Kingdom has a fantastic selection of children's games!  They have some fun card games, board games, matching games, and even cooperative games.

I had never heard of a cooperative game and was so happy when Peaceable Kingdom sent me their Hoot Owl Hoot! children's cooperative game to play with my family.  Cooperative games "are games where everyone plays together, no one is left out, and everyone has fun! Unlike a traditional game where there is one winner and one (or many) losers, in a cooperative game the players work as a team against a common obstacle, not against each other. Cooperative games emphasize play, not competition. Kids learn to work and play together in respectful and compassionate ways. They learn to share, make decisions together, and trust one another. Cooperative games encourage inclusion and build confidence. Most importantly, the kids play because it’s fun!"(found on their website)

The Hoot Owl Hoot! game we got turned out to be perfect for our family!  The object of the game is to move all the owls from their start positions all the way to their cozy nest before the sun fully rises.  You get 6 owl tokens, a sun token, and mulitple color and sun cards which are used throughout the game.  (From their website)"To start, place the sun token in the first space on the sun track and place 3 owls on the start spaces. Give 3 cards to each player. Players keep their cards face up in front of them so they can work together to strategize how to move. If a player has a sun card she must discard the sun and move the sun token 1 space up. If she has all color cards she discards any 1 color card and then moves any owl to the next open space of that color. If an owl 'flies' over an owl on a space of that color on its way to the next open space, all players make a hooting sound! The game can be made more challenging by adding up to 6 owl tokens. Because Hoot Owl Hoot! is a cooperative game players play any of the owls – no one player has a single owl she is trying to get back to the nest."

Our family had so much fun playing Hoot Owl Hoot!  My kids really enjoyed recognizing the different colors and moving the owls to the right spots!  And unlike some other games, because of the cooperative aspect, there was no fighting, crying, or feeling bad because everyone was a winner!  Even when the sun fully rose and all of our owls hadn't made it back to the nest, my kids just said "Oh no!  Let's play again so we can get them home safely."  It was really cute!  All in all, I just really loved the cooperative Hoot Owl Hoot! game.  We had a great time playing as a family and working together!  I think the game is great for kids to learn how to make decisions together, share with others, work as a team, and even helps to build positive self-esteem!

Be sure to check out all the different cooperative games Peaceable Kingdom has and grab some for your family this holiday!      

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