A three-year-old baby can already be offered games with an intricate plot. It is not easy to interest him in entertainment for younger children, you need something more exciting and developing at the same time. Tabletop with a "3+" they will perfectly cope with this task, and during the visit of the child's friends they will solve the issue with an interesting pastime.

The best board games for kids 3 4 years old

Surprisingly, play plays an important role in the proper development of children. To make a good choice board for a 3 year old child, it is important to consider some points:

Preschoolers of three years old will not like the abundance of text in the game, but bright illustrations will certainly delight.

1. "Forest fairies" is a game for toddlers in the third year of life, which includes 27 cards and a few cubes. Girls will like it more, because the details with yellow, green and pink backgrounds depict fairies-bees and fairies-butterflies. One cube represents the color of the card, the other represents the fairy's occupation, and the third represents the number of sorceresses drawn. Throwing three dice at once, a combination arises that needs to be found faster among those on the table. The winner is the one who collected 5 cards first.
   
2. "Hungry Hippos" will be a great gift for little lovers of simple tasks. There are 2 variants of the game - with two and four animals. Each participant must choose a hippo and eat balls with it from the center of the playground. The one who has the most feed wins.
   
3. Colorful walker "Bunnies" is a 3D puzzle. With these eared ones, it will be fun to develop fine motor skills and learn the ordinal count. The aim of the game is to place the construction set parts made of soft and hygienically safe foam material. The role of the usual dice in it is played by special tokens for tossing.
4. "Merry Pilot" is a simple budget walker game designed just for the non-rubber patience of a 3-year-old kid. According to the rules, the participants roll the dice and move their token forward by the corresponding number of cells. Some cells make the player skip a turn, others throw them forward several moves. The winner is the one who gets to the finish line first.
5. "Linus - little wizard". This game for children of 3 years of age will not teach you how to conjure, but it will well develop memory and strategic thinking. According to the plot of the game, the young magician enchanted some of his toys. The child's task is to find them. The set contains tokens representing the wizard's toys, enchanted objects are equipped with a magnet. The magician figure is brought to the tokens in turn, and if Linus magnetizes them, the participant takes the token for himself. The winner is the one with the most colorful trophies. The downside of the game is that there is no instruction in Russian in the kit, but the rules are extremely simple.
   
6. "Battle of the Dogs" - a game that can bring a lot of positive. Hones the ability to distinguish objects by size (large and small). The deck of cards with images of dogs is divided equally into two players. The participants then show their card at the same time. The one with the largest dog takes both cards. The goal is to collect the entire deck.
7. "Spotted dogs" - a game in which there are many cards with the image of four-legged friends, as well as a field with an arrow. According to the instructions, you need to lay the cards face up and turn the hand on the clock. After it stops at a certain number, you should find a dog with the same number of specks. As soon as all the cards are sold out, the players turn them over and count the total number of dice depicted on the reverse side. The winner is the one who has collected the most bones.
   
8. Billy Beaver made on the analogue of the adult Jenga. We turn on the beaver and sit on the top of the dam. The goal is to push the logs out from under it so that the water rodent does not get outraged. The set includes logs of different colors: brown, orange, yellow. The winner is the participant who collects 2 details of each shade.
   
9. "Strawberry paths" contain a deck of cards, a cardboard basket, 28 wooden strawberries and 4 laces. Each player takes a lace. The cards are placed face down on the table in the form of a track. Participants must take turns taking cards from their lanes, and following the designation on the front side, take or give a certain number of berries. The winner is the one who collects all the berries.
10. "Flower pot" ... In order to master this game, you need to be able to count to 15. The rules are simple: if a participant chooses a card with a stem, he substitutes it to the plant. If a card with a head falls out, it should be put back. The winner is the one with the most leaves on the flower.
    

Board games for children 3 years old: reviews

1. Grandparents bought the game " Spotted dogs "... For two nights in a row, we played it with my daughter, and today I noticed that she counts much faster. Of course, it is not the result of the game itself that brings her more pleasure, but twisting the arrow on the clock. The purchase was very successful!
2. "Merry Pilot" turned out to be a very addicting game. Walkers with more complicated rules have been lying around for a long time somewhere at home, but children show no interest in them. Probably, they are for more adults. And this simple game immediately won their love.
3. I bought my daughters a tabletop "Forest fairies" primarily because of the image of these fairies. I thought if they didn't understand the rules, they would come up with something anyway. However, they play with pleasure according to the instructions, with passion they look for suitable cards on the table. This acquisition was definitely not in vain.

Educational board games for children 3 years old: useful video

If you are looking for educational board games for children 3 4, we suggest you watch the video review.

Back in winter we discovered board and logic games(Santa Claus put them under the Christmas tree). Today I'm going to tell you about 10 fun and educational games, some of which are suitable for family leisure, while others can keep your child busy for a long time.

1. "Skubidu"

One of the first games we started playing with my son flew into our house from distant Berlin. I don’t know how to read its name correctly, but we call it "Scoobydoo". The game is very simple and very entertaining. Each player chooses a centipede head and begins to build his long-legged beauty.

There are 4 dice with colored boots in a set, by throwing which the players determine the card with how many legs they can take from the field and join their centipede. The most multi-legged centipede wins. Egorka surprisingly quickly mastered the rules and really fell in love with counting the legs of all centipedes.

2. "The Jolly Pirates" ( game "Funny Pirates" in the online store "Labyrinth")

An interesting game of attentiveness. I bought it specially for, but my son and I could not resist and unpacked it earlier. The essence of the game is quite simple - the set contains cards with images of different pirates on a multi-colored background and cubes that suggest which card you need to find as quickly as possible - with what background color, with how many pirates and with which pirates.

3. "Mikado" ( game "Mikado" in the online store "Labyrinth")

One of my favorite games. Fast, funny and not at all burdensome for the head - what you need for the evening after a hard day. We play it with pleasure in the company of dad or grandmother. Bright wooden sticks and a wooden wheel-like ring are pleasing to the eye and hands.

The players take turns throwing a dice and pulling sticks out of the "hut", trying not to ruin it. When the hut falls, the number of sticks is counted (for us, of course, Yegor counts) - the player who has the most of them wins. Yegorka is always lucky in this game, although he pulls out the sticks without any hesitation or hesitation - he just quickly pulls out the first one that comes across. The game promotes coordination and training.

4. "Frog Race" ( game "Frog Race" in the online store "Labyrinth")

Another fine motor and coordination game. We unpacked it quite recently and so far it has not met my expectations. Egorka likes to make a train out of frogs more, clinging them to each other with his paws or lining them up and counting them endlessly (in every way, it turns out twelve).

I didn’t like the fact that the frogs were flimsy in appearance, and even I don’t really manage to drive them in - for this you need to press your finger on the movable "tail" of the frog. I also don’t understand why not make a lake instead of a large frog - it seems to me that it would be more logical and visual - frogs jump into the water, by the way, you can pour it there for the greater joy of the players.

5. "Carrot Race" ( game "Carrot Race" in the online store "Labyrinth")

Classic "walker". Chips in the form of rabbits, at the finish - a wooden carrot bed (I think it would be quite possible to draw it right on the playing field, it is somehow not very convenient to put it). The "highlight" of the game is 2 playing fields. The photo shows that on one side the rabbits are jumping forward through the beds (vertically), on the other - horizontally across the field. The rules of the game are also different, so variations are possible.

6. "Wheelbarrow" ( game "Wheelbarrow" in the online store My-shop.ru)

An excellent logic game, which, of course, did not leave my little one indifferent ... We use this machine in role-playing games, for construction, and, of course, for its intended purpose. The game is a wooden base for a typewriter and 4 colored figures with eyes, from which you can add a great variety of variants of a typewriter - each time it has different eyes, very interesting!

The set includes a convenient and visual album with tasks and solutions, but for some reason Yegorka likes to try to compose the options shown on the cover. Well, without answers, of course, it is more interesting, I do not argue. The game promotes the development of spatial thinking.

Tired of the mess in the nursery? Tired of endlessly collecting toys for your child?

7. "Hungry Hippos" ( the game "Hungry Hippos" in the online store "Labyrinth")

Now I suggest you watch a video tutorial on how to make a simple walking game for your child:

What games do you play with your children? Share in the comments!

In general, I present to you our selection of board games for children 3-4 years old. At this age, children are just learning to play according to clearly defined rules and steadfastly perceive any prevailing outcome of the game. We can say that they only "get a taste" of board games. This is probably why manufacturers have invented not so many board games at this age as, say, 5+. But even among what is on the market, eyes run up, so let's start choosing the most interesting!

• Simple walkers (Ozon, My-shop, KoroBoom)

First of all, 3-4 years is a great age to master the first classic walkers. In the article "" I already wrote that the first walks should not be very long. Preferably, no more than 50-60 cells, otherwise the child will simply get tired and will not have the patience to finish the game. At this age, the baby first of all learns to accurately count the required number of cells and follow simple rules. Therefore, at this stage, there are enough walkers with the most uncomplicated conditions - "skip a move", "additional move", "follow the arrow there and then." In this respect, I like the simple games from Umka, they are ideally suited to these requirements.

In this article, an overview of our favorites (among them there are different age options from 1+ to 5+) and the distribution of materials for printing 7 card games from Djeco. After the release of the decree, there is much less time for preparation and selection of materials for development. Meanwhile, Yana's needs for games and activities have increased significantly. Board games came to our rescue.

Games are sorted by price level - blue available, more yellow - higher price.

Dinosaurs. Path to the valley

The combination of the idea, appearance and budget cost of this game (my-shop,) determines its position in the top of the rating.
The cheapness of the game is due to inexpensive materials - soft foam cardboard. The box contains a set of puzzles and rules. Characters and surroundings are assembled from puzzles. Practicality makes the game accessible, but at the same time does not prevent it from being beautiful and fun!

According to the plot, the game is an adventure game. The track is laid out from individual elements. The presence of a scale of lives in the game and the conditions under which lives are lost make the game special.
If, as a result of a move, a dinosaur lands on a field between two deserts (yellow stripes), it loses 2 life. If the dinosaur falls into the valley between the two green bars, it regains a hit point.

For the little ones, complications can be discarded and the game will become a 3D puzzle or a simple adventure game. The game is designed for the number of players from 2 to 6 players.
The game has one drawback - the fragility of the details. Yana has no problems with this, since she is neat and after her everything remains like new. But we could not save one dinosaur from the cat 😥. Actually, with careful handling, the strength of the game will be enough to fall in love with it and play enough of it many times.

Bunnies

Another colorful adventure game (my-shop,) is a 3D puzzle for kids. Designed for two players. In my opinion, the optimal age for playing is 2.5-4 years.
The game comes in the form of a set of 3D foam puzzles and instructions. Instead of a cube, the set contains two squares with the number of points. The maximum number of points is 3.

Board games 3 years | Carrot Race - Toddler Adventure Game

Board games 3 years | Game Print Materials

In addition to purchased games, we also have homemade ones, printed from materials found on the Internet. Those who have not heard anything about Djeco games yet should definitely get to know them, at least in a homemade version. Below I will show some of our "printouts". Read more about lamination of educational materials using an iron.

Board games 3 years | Сoloformix Djeco

A game of fixing shapes and colors. Suitable for children from 3.5 years old. Comprises:

• a set of pictures with geometric shapes of various colors;
• playing field in the form of a matrix of colors and shapes;
• chips-stars.

During the game, the child must find the shapes and colors used on a given picture and display them on the playing field. For Yana, the main difficulty was caused by the positioning of the stars on the matrix of the playing field. I taught her to draw lines opposite the desired color, the desired shape and find the intersection.

The very tasks of finding shapes and colors turned out to be elementary for her. Despite this, I find the game useful. The matrix is ​​a very convenient presentation of information and it is right to acquaint preschoolers with it. Although, probably, one should start not with 3, but with 4-5 years old :-).

Board games 3 years | Topologix Djeco (my-shop)

A game of positioning objects in space. Suitable for children from 3.5 years old.
The set includes:

• landscape cards;
• playing field in the form of a matrix of positions and objects;
• chips with the image of animals.

Purpose of the game: Place the tiles on the playing field according to the position of the animals in the given landscape. To prevent the chips from moving around the field during the game, we provided them with pieces of sticky mass and this turned them into practically reusable stickers.

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I posted the printed materials for 7 Djeco card games. Now I don't remember the resources where I downloaded them, but I want to give a tip to the site with a huge collection of various printed games, including scans of other branded games: boardgamer.ru.

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I promised to write in detail about our very first board games. Unfortunately, the fulfillment of my promise has been delayed, as the last 2 weeks the whole family has been too busy to fight the flu. But finally all the bad things are over, and now I can say that the turn has come to board games.

In this article, I will tell you in detail about what is most relevant with us from 2-2.5 years old. Also here you can find and print several board games.

What are the benefits of board games for toddlers? First, they teach the child to act. according to the rules : wait for your turn, perform certain prescribed actions, etc. Secondly, the kid learns that there are situations when it is not him who wins, but someone else, and learns to adequately accept this scenario. And thirdly, games, as a rule, teach the child some useful information or skills. For example, a walker with cubes and chips perfectly practices the baby's counting skills, the “Animals” lotto helps to remember the names of animals, etc.

• Walking game "On a visit to the hare" (with a dice and chips)

I made this walker for my daughter when she was still 2.5 years old. She became a wonderful help for us in mastering the account, well, she just helped to have an interesting time together, my daughter simply adored the game. I recommend you to take this game into service, as it is made just for the little ones. Read more about our walker and you can download it.

• Ready-made walkers for toddlers

If we talk about ready-made options available for sale in stores, then it seemed to me the most suitable for the role of the first walker « Cheese run» (Ozon, Maze, My-shop). There are very few cells here - only 24, the child will definitely not have time to get tired. In addition, the set includes a special cube for novice accountants - the number of points on it does not exceed three.

What I didn’t like about this board game was that it’s not entirely clear to a beginner player which way to go now, all the cells are stuck together and therefore the direction is not obvious to the kid.

Another good option is walkers from Umka (Ozon, My-shop, KoroBoom). Games are also simple and accessible, but there are significantly more cells, and a cube with very small dots, which presents some difficulty for a child who is just learning how to count cells and points on a cube. So the games are more suitable for children who have seen walkers not for the first time.

Playing with dice and chips is not the only thing that a 2 year old can offer. Here are some more interesting options for board games for toddlers:

• « Magical city» (My-shop, Maze, KoroBoom)

• « Multicolored caterpillars» ( My-shop, Maze, KoroBoom)

Step Puzzle has an excellent series of road games that are compact and inexpensive. I want to draw your attention to two games from this series - " Magical city"(pictured above) and" Multicolored caterpillars"(pictured below). Do not look at the 4+ mark on the box, it is clearly too high. The games are the best suited for kids who are just starting to get acquainted with board games, because the rules here cannot be easier.

"Caterpillars" and "Magic City" are very similar in their essence. And although the rules contain several variants of the game, the process comes down to about one thing - the participants take turns throwing a multi-colored dice and substituting a piece of the corresponding color to their tower / caterpillar. The one who has a design that is longer or reaches a certain detail wins. Everything is simple and easy - the very thing is to get used to acting by the rules.

• Board game "Palette" (Ozon, My-shop, KoroBoom)

This game is copied from the once popular board game " Colorama". Due to the fact that the original is not easy to find on sale lately, I immediately write about its budgetary and more perceptible analogue - the board game" Palette. " consolidating the names of colors and shapes, teaches the child to select objects according to a combination of two characteristics at once - shape and color.

Several variants of the game are possible here. The easiest one - the child simply inserts the chips into the playing field, matching them according to the color and shape of the openings. You can do this in turn with an adult - as the beginner player likes best.

In more complex versions of the game, cubes are already needed. On one of the cubes, a shape falls out, on the other, a color. In accordance with the dropped characteristics, you need to find a suitable piece and place it on the field, or, on the contrary, remove it from the field (depending on which version of the game you have chosen). The winner is the one who is the first to place all his pieces on the field, or the one who accumulates more pieces.

• Djeco card game "Dodo" (Ozon, My-shop)

The kit is simply amazing in its kind, it cannot be called educational or developmental (although a child will need a count within three), but it will definitely leave the warmest, tender, bright emotions in the soul of both the parent and the child. In fact, this game is another reason for kisses and hugs with your beloved child, because there are so many different cards with kisses and other affections. By the way, "Dodo" can be great.

The main goal is to put a cardboard baby (girl or boy) to sleep in a bed that is not even a cardboard one (a real textile mattress is attached). However, a baby can only fall asleep if he has a pillow, blanket, and stuffed toy. To find all these items, the child will need to sequentially open cards in the deck. But before he finds everything he is looking for, he will encounter many more cards with tenderness that you will have to provide him: a kiss on the elbow, knee, tickles, a song and much more.

The declared age of the kit is 3+, but a kid even 2.5 years old will easily understand it. The price in stores for "Dodo", as well as for the entire Djeco company, is quite high, so, perhaps, you will find the electronic version of the game useful. "Dodo" you can DOWNLOAD HERE .

• Bunnies (Ozon, My-Shop, KoroBoom)

This is a game that "hooks" children with almost 100% probability. Even if the kid does not want to play by the rules, he will definitely like to assemble a fairy field as a constructor and play simple plots on it. I think the main secret of the success of this board is in the 3D playing field, plus an interesting idea of ​​harvesting in the garden.

To be honest, I bought this board game when my daughter was noticeably more than 2 years old (and she just stuck to her). But I include in the selection of games for the little ones, because we got the game many times, when the kids came to visit, the game always went with a bang. The child here needs to count only within three, the rules are also simple (only parents need to figure it out first, because the instructions are written rather tricky).

The main task of the game is to go into the garden through a free hole in the fence and pick cabbage or carrots there (depending on the number of points dropped). With your catch, you need to walk home as soon as possible, and then again go for the next portion. Naturally, the one who has harvested the most significant harvest wins.

According to our observations, this board game for children also becomes interesting after 2.5 years. And again, the players throw here in turn a multi-colored dice. Having thrown out, for example, the red color, the player must put a red cylinder on the scale. In this case, you need to be very careful not to drop either your own or previously supplied cylinders. Naturally, the one who will lose this whole structure will lose. The balancer develops clarity of movements, accuracy and, of course, also teaches you to play by the rules: it teaches you to wait for your turn, and it gives the child the understanding that not only he can win.

By the way, we have come up with another version of this game: cylinders can not only be added to scales, but also a tower can be built from them, also being guided by the color that fell on the dice.

• Fun races and ladybugs (Ozon, My-shop, KoroBoom)

Here is another simple game for the little ones. A game that fosters patience and perseverance. And she also trains the child in simple counting, because during the game you will have to count the number of points on the cube many times.

The winner of the game is the one who collects his ladybug the fastest. It is not difficult to collect it - for this you need to roll the corresponding numbers on the die. Throwing out "1" - you can take the body of a ladybug, throwing out "4" - you can take one eye, etc. It should be remembered that the legs can be attached only when you already have a little body, and the eyes, nose and antennae - when you already have a head.

• Educational gameDjeco "Figures" (Ozon, My-shop)

A very good set for practicing the very first counting skills. The rules contain as many as 4 variants of the game, both the most commonplace (combine numbers and quantities) and not beaten. One of them was especially fond of us. This is the essence of it: each player takes a playing field with empty silhouettes of animals. By rolling the dice, the players must fill their squares with chips. How many chips fell on the dice - we put so many chips on the field. Moreover, in the last move, exactly as many points should fall on the cube as there are empty cells left on the field, if we are not lucky, we are waiting for the next move. Naturally, the winner is the one who is the first to completely collect all the kittens / puppies / hares / ducks.

The number of points on the cube does not exceed three, so a 2-year-old child can easily cope with the counting.

The performance of the set, as usual for Djeco, is at a height, chips and cards are pleasant to hold in your hands, they are durable and will definitely last a long time. Still, the price for Djeco “Figures” seems to me too high, and it’s not easy to find a set on sale lately, so, just in case, I am posting a scanned version of the game. Kit can DOWNLOAD HERE .

• Lotto (Maze, My-shop, KoroBoom)

And, of course, do not forget about the classic games everyone loves. You can start to get acquainted with lotto as early as a year, about that. Closer to two years old, the baby can not only put the cards in the right places, but also play by simple rules with the enemy. For example, dad and child get on the playing field, and mom takes cards out of the bag in any order (well, or almost in any order :)) and announces "Who has the hippo?" The winner is the one who is the first to collect all the cards in his field.

Lotto is also remarkable in that during the game you can unobtrusively study any interesting topic - animals, plants, profession, geometric figures etc. All names will be remembered by the child quickly and easily.

• Dominoes (Maze, My-shop, KoroBoom)

Another classic game is dominoes. Naturally, at the first stage you will need a domino where instead of dots there are pictures. Most likely, the child will not yet be able to master the full version of the rules, but he will definitely be able to play in the simplified version. We started to get acquainted with dominoes, then we just built paths out of it, simply combining pictures on dominoes. Later they began to take turns, and also differentiated a common bunch of dominoes into “yours and mine”. I think now you can try to explain the full rules to your daughter (now she is 3 years old).

• Memori (KoroBoom, Maze, My-shop)

I think this game is also familiar to everyone from childhood. Here you can also try to play alone first, and then together. For those who are not familiar with the rules, I will briefly explain. A certain number of cards are taken, for example, to start with 8, laid out on the table with pictures up, the name of each picture must be pronounced. Then all the cards are turned face down and from memory you need to remember where which picture is. If two are playing, then each player takes the guessed cards for himself, and at the end of the game they are counted.

In memory games, all cards can be different (in Shichida's technique, this is called a memory grid), or they can be paired (then the goal is to find pairs). Taisia ​​and I began to master the first memory at 1 year 9 months, starting with a small number of cards. At this age, the essence of the game is already clear.

Memori, like lotto, helps to explore new concepts and topics. For example, if you choose cards with exotic animals, during the game you can get acquainted with unfamiliar species of animals, etc.

• Educational games and play sets

Very often, manufacturers call various educational and educational game sets board games, and although I myself would classify them in some other category, I think it would be unfair to say nothing about them at all in this article. Here is an example of a good educational game - urlspan] Magnetic stories. Seasons (Maze, My-shop, KoroBoom).

Unlike other educational kits, in this one you will not find boring cards, but a whole field for. This is probably why we had this set among our favorites. We chose one season of the year and set up an environment for the magnetic heroes that was appropriate for the chosen season. Then, in this environment, different life situations were played out - for example, the boy did not dress for the weather (he went out in some shorts in winter) and fell ill, or the girl went into the forest for berries and got lost. Naturally, during the game, we talked about what characteristics are inherent in this or that season. Agree, in such a game they are remembered quickly and without tediousness.