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My very first Games

Gitti Giraffe

(MEINE ERSTEN SPIELE GITTI GIRAFFE)

My Very First Games is a special series of games intended for infants and toddlers, with special demands on the components and for the games idea. Infants should be able to play freely with the components using them as toys and play very simple first games adhering to rules and thus train the understanding of rules and adhering to them. The game also is a good training for hand-eye-coordination and motor skills.

To prepare the game the trees are laid out and the feeding cards are placed on them. Gitti Giraffe is put next to one of the trees; one of her wheels should touch the trunk. Gitti at the moment has a very short neck: one block sits on the body and the head on the block. In your turn you roll the die. If you roll a color you take a block of this color, or any block if you rolled a star. Gitti’s head is picked up, the block is placed on the body/neck and the head is put back. Then Gitti is slowly rolled to the next tree. If all blocks stay in place you are rewarded with a feeding card. If one or more blocks tumble off the fallen blocks are put with the others on the table and Gitti is moved to a tree to start the game anew. If blocks did remain on Gitti, they stay there. When all feeding cards have been handed out, the winner is who can lay out the longest row of feeding cards. For older children you can lengthen the distance between the trees and make them turn Gitti before pushing her across.

A simple game with marvelous components, exactly what the series specifies – a well-made introduction to the world of games rules for a toddler.

Spieler         : 1-4

Alter            : ages 2 and up

Dauer           : ca. 10 min

Autor           : Evelyn Kopp

Grafik          : Evelyn Kopp

Titel             : Meine ersten Spiele Gitti Giraffe

Preis            : ca. 28,00 Euro

Verlag          : Haba 2010

                      www.haba.de

Genre                    : Stapelspiel und Spielzeug

Zielgruppe             : For children (infants)

Mechanismen         : Follow first simple rules, stack blocks

Kommentar:

Game and toy at the same time

Trains first comprehension and acceptance of rules, motor skills and hand-eye coordination

Can be used for free play

Vergleichbar:

Other games in the series of „My very first Games“, all stacking games for toddlers

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