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What kinds of games does your young child enjoy?
We play Uno and Go Fish. I need ideas!

My 3 year old daughter likes both of those games. She also likes memory games. Other board games we play:
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Mousetrap
Chutes and Ladders
Candyland
Richard Scarry Busytown
Connect 4
and a very simplified version of dominoes

Also try Go Away Monster, Animal Upon Animal (and many other Haba games), and Pengoloo (and many other Blue-Orange games).

DS3 likes:

-Battleship
-Scrabble
-Bingo
-Katamino
-Sequence
-a kit of 5 Eeboo card games, including Old Maid, Crazy 8s, and Hearts

ETA: we bought him a turtle programming game for Christmas that looks engaging. Will post back with impressions.

Oh, also look for Boggle Jr. My first grader adored that game when he was in preschool.

I wanna ask the same question too, my 3 yrs old son likes,

- color code by smart games
- Chutes and Ladders
- hoot owl hoot
- memory games
- snug as a bug
(but now he likes to make his own game and rule and ask us to play with him)

other than games, are u asking about toys as well?

My son actually likes art work more,
- mosaic art
- suncatcher

and Magna tiles, Dot-to-dot and activities books are his favorite too.

My dd 2 y 10 m likes tic tac toe, Frozen Surprise Slides, Hangman, Jenga, and anything that is spontaneous. At the playground she likes hide and seek, chase, and a game she invented of saving Captain Hook. That is my favorite. We go on adventures to save Captain Hook from his latest predicament. She always defines the rules to this game, and the route that we must take. We always earn gold doubloons along the way.

My kids loved "Rat-a-tat-cat" as preschoolers.

At 3 DD liked:
Richard Scarry's Busytown Airport
Candy Land
Hungry Hippos
Guess Who
Old Maid

Her big thing was and still is trivia. She'd learn about something and then come up to us and say, "Hey can we play guess the continent?" She also really enjoyed 20 questions.

Did you get Robot Turtles? We did. DD4 (and DS8 and DD2) love it!