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【Board Games for Kids 8-12】 This set includes 1 game board, 1 cat figure, 1 house and 1 tree, 31 canopies, 12 trunks, and a challenges booklet with 48 challenges and solutions
【Brain Teasers Activities】 The Forest Stacking & Sorting Logic Board Games offers 48 different ways to play and 4 difficulty levels. Ensuring that kids can start at a comfortable level and progressively move to more challenging tasks as their skills improve the rules are easy to understand, providing a fun play experience for children of all ages
【Fun Challenge】 Follow the instructions to start the game, Choose a challenge where trees of the same color must form a “chain” by being placed adjacent to each other, either horizontally or vertically. A tree with 1 layer must be placed next to a tree with 2 layers, which in turn must be adjacent to a tree with 3 layers, and so on. There is only one solution, which can be found at the end of the booklet
【Brain Games Build Skills】 Our board games aim to help early childhood development. This is a great puzzle game ideal for children age 4-6-8-12. It helps children build spatial awareness, planning, problem solving, concentration, and flexible thinking while playing the board game
【Funny Gift & Educational Toys 】Compact and portable, this board game is perfect for families on the go. It’s a great addition to family game nights or classrooms, combining fun and learning. This board game also makes for a popular stem gift for both kids and adults. It’s an ideal present for boys and girls aged 4 and up—perfect for birthday, Christmas day, New year, or any special holiday
Kandie –
This game has been a hit!
All the kids, from the youngest to the oldest, have been playing it. Each person can play at their preferred difficulty. Itâs neat to watch each of them problem-solve as they work through the puzzles. The pieces are well-made and colorful. The different colors of trees can be stacked on each other although that isnât called for anywhere in the rules. Also, it can be a little frustrating to bump the game board and have the stacks of trees fall apart everywhere. The kids have been inventing new games using the pieces and we have been using them for imaginary play too. The trees are just the right size for our wooden train set.
Steve B. –
Challenging and entertaining for different ages – Had some mixed up parts
The puzzle is about making chains of different heights and colors of trees based on challenges of different levels. The chains are built with a combination of tree trunks and stacking caps. The game is supposed to have three yellow “trunks” that you put yellow caps on. Our game had 8 green trunks instead of 5 green and 3 yellow trunks. So, we’ve had to mark them with yellow tape. There really isn’t a point to having trunks AND caps at all, could just all be trees alone and would still be essentially the same puzzle but less cumbersome. This is a logic puzzle. Kids old enough to do the logic, don’t need stacking practice. All that said, it’s a fun puzzle. My “puzzling wife” enjoyed the higher levels and the elementary kids love the lower levels and working their way up. Good problem solving/logic practice.
Dawn H –
Good for older kids
My grandsons are 4 and 6. Neither of them were very interested in this game. The four-year-old sorted the trees by color and was done. The 6-year-old does not have the attention span to play the game. I like the idea of the game and will save it for a while and try again.One note: the trunks are mostly green with a couple orange. When we do actually play the game, it would be much better to have the same color trunks to help with mapping out a route.
Sallyb00 –
It’s a colorful and cute game.
All the components have a neat finish, making them nice to look at, and the cute characters, colorful trees, and houses make them great for role-playing even when not playing the game. My son love finding the right answers to puzzles and playing with the cat character.
Rae Downs –
Similar to Smart Games, age appropriate for 6+ years
Jhtigre forest stacking brain game is nice. If you are a teacher and love Smart Games for your classroom, this one is similar. This game is all plastic with a challenge booklet like Smart Games has to scaffold learning. The board is sturdy and the pieces are fairly sturdy.I teach Pre-K and have many, many Smart Games in the classroom. Here are some things I noticed with this set. The tree trunks to build trees have random amounts of each color. Kids try to plan out the orange, yellow and green but trunks will not correspond. Kids must simply use a random color. The challenge booklet has very tiny pictures. That is not engaging for students to squint at a minuscule photo. There is no page turn as the child solves a puzzle with the answer right on the back of the page. The solutions are way in the back of the book impossible for a 4 year old to navigate. This is not an independent activity for a 4 year old student. I will also need to take time to reformat the book on the school copier to make it useable for my kiddos.This game could be improved by having the tree trunks the same color as the trees so kids could map out their thinking, instead of random color amounts. The challenge book needs to be one challenge per page with solution on back, easy to navigate, engaging to do with a satisfying page turn. The tree tops easily topple over as kids rethink their plan and make adjustments. It is difficult to reach into the middle without a frustrating avalanche.Long and short of this item- Not age appropriate for a 4 year old. This is a critical thinking manipulative for age 6 and up. A 4 year old can do level one with help from the teacher and likely fine motor frustration. Preschool age students quickly lose interest with this one unfortunately and it sits on the shelf unused.
Katie Blodgett –
Fun statagy game!
We are known as the gaming house in the family. And i love having new games for all my family members to play with when they visit. I got this game for my nephews to play when they’d come to visit us next. They came over the other day for pur Pre-Christmas party and I let them go ham on it. They are 9 and 7. They liked trying to solve the puzzles the board created for them. All the pieces seemed to fit great together and for all the puzzle they got threw, they didn’t get stuck on one, so I’ma assume the game element itself works well. They were happy and loved playing it so I would say it’s kid approved!
Gifted Guru –
Fun pieces not an age appropriate game.
Thi game list 3+ but it is really a decent logic puzzle for kids closer to high elementary school not pre-K. The pieces are fun to play with so not listing a 0, but the actual activity is not age appopriate.Aditionally, the game does not involve stacking as part of the logic, all the matters is the number of the height. I do not know how many kids are looking for a numeric logic game, but if they are then this may work.