Her first boardgame, Monopoly Junior, was a present by PF for her 5th birthday. And she never looked back since. We have more than 10 different kinds of boardgames. Game Of Life, PayDay, Star Wars Monopoly, Scrabble Junior, Pictionary, Charades (yes, they have a boardgame for charades!), Horse-o-poly (which is a horsey form of monopoly!), Blokus, Guess Who?....and lots more!
Her favourite game for the past 2 years had been Game Of Life. I love it too, and we would spend endless hours giggling over our "lives" in the game! Hubby would usually play the more "mind-boggling" games with her like Blokus and another which he bought recently (and I could not remember the name!). I tried playing with them several times, and they both always beat me in these games! Those mind-challenging games certainly stimulate creative and logical thinking, hmm, maybe these are the skills lacking in me, hence I always end up being the loser!
Poor Little Bee always tries joining in, and we always let her "pretend-play" with us, by dishing out money and tokens to her, and she would be happily throwing the dice, but not comprehending what she was achieving! So cute! I can't wait for the day when all 4 of us can play together!
One day last month, Hubby sat down with Big Bee on a little project to create her very own boardgame. Both Hubby and me used to create boardgames ourselves when we were children, so we thought this is a fantastic way for her to develop this little hobby too!
After an afternoon of secrecy and hard work, they revealed their product to me. Very sellable, very colourful, and I love those quirky little game messages! We spent many hours playing it too.
The concept "Fish-o-poly" was thought of by Big Bee, as she wanted to create a boardgame with an ocean theme. And she modelled it exactly on Monopoly Junior. We bought ocean creatures finger puppets from Ikea to be game tokens and used paper money and houses from Monopoly Junior. Hubby helped a lot in crafting out game penalties or rewards on the board! I was very impressed indeed!
Game cards (Hubby and Big Bee labelled them as "Clam Cards")
Finger puppets as game tokens
Anyone interested to buy? ;)
4 comments:
Extremely creative! I never created any board game when I was little. Do you think Dylan would understand how to play board game now? At 4 and a half?
Very creative! I love the clam cards :)
viv/YM: Thanks...credit goes to hubby, really! Yes, I think Dylan can play board games now...but get a very simple one to engage his interest first.
this is so cool!!!! can i come over and play some time?
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