There’s No Such Thing as a Gruffalo Game

We like to play board games at our house. Either store bought games or ones we make up ourselves. Now that Aiden is 3, he is getting into playing them more and more. We were excited to receive the Meet the Gruffalo Preschool Imagination Game from our friends at The Gruffalo. We enjoyed playing the game as directed, and Aiden loved making up his own Gruffalo game.

There’s No Such Thing as a Gruffalo Game

The Gruffalo board game is a memory game. Players hunt through the deep dark woods in search of the Gruffalo and other characters from the story. You are holding three character cards. As the mouse, your job is to find those characters and the Gruffalo on the board. Once you find them, head back to the start and announce that you know where everyone is. Double check that your memory is right. If it is, you win!

This game practices turn taking, counting, and memory skills. Aiden just loved moving the mouse around the board.

We made one modification for Aiden. The game is designed for ages 3 and up, but Aiden needed a little bit of help. Each player gets 3 character cards. These cards are supposed to remain known only to you. No one else is supposed to know who you are searching for. We flipped our character cards face up, so it was easier for Aiden to know who he needed to look for.

Aiden’s Gruffalo Matching Game

I love it when a game can be used for more than one purpose {like our matching game with a deck of cards}. Aiden was playing The Gruffalo board game like the directions said. Then, he created his own game from the pieces in the box.

Aiden chose a character card from the pile. He then found the matching character circle. He held up both cards and said, “Look I found the fox!” He continued matching the characters one by one.

More Fun with The Gruffalo

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Check out how we used The Gruffalo’s Child to learn about shadows (and see lots of other posts about Julia Donaldson books linked up at The Virtual Book Club for Kids).