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My son started fascinated in building paper airplanes at 6 and extended his interests in origami at 7.

There are a slew of nice little carved wooden magnetic chess sets on eBay. Here's a sample:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...p;ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_4804wt_754

You can get them in a range of finishes and board sizes, from 5" on up. There's also a Kasparov-branded one available in 5" and 7". After getting one of the 7" Kasparov ones I think it's nice enough, but I'd probably go with one of the sets made in India if I had to do it over again.

Even to this day, no matter how hard I try, DD5 will not accept that having the Old Maid at the end means she loses. LOL.

Wished we had more time to play... but a couple of games that DS7 enjoys are:

* Labyrinth (http://www.amazon.com/Ravensburger-26448-Labyrinth/dp/B00000J0JF/ref=pd_sim_t_1)
* Legos Minotaurus (http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Games-4568196-Minotaurus-Game/dp/B002WCNKUQ) There are several lego based games now too.

Good luck. Happy holidays.

JB

I second Labyrinth and my son loves any form of Monopoly and one of his favorites is Ticket to Ride....he asked for these new board games for Christmas...Dicecapades Word Pirates and Dicecapedes Number Ninjas.

My 6 yr DD's love
scrabble and up words

ad are getting the new lego games form santa

Scrabble, Equate, Blink, SET, Blokus, Rumicube

I still shudder when I think of the game Old Maid. I ripped up the Old Maid card at my cousins house when I was little and got in so much trouble. Just say NO to Old Maid ha ha ha :)) Nan

Yeah, I wasn't much into it as a kid either. I think it's one of the better games for getting very young kids in good form to play card games in general, though. Even just holding a few cards up at a time, so they can be seen but hidden from other players, can be tough initially.

It would potentially be a good choice for a child who's just beginning to learn to take turns during a game, but would find a lot of rules frustrating. With my son, we had lots of fun early on with poking up cards in the middle so they'd be taken, bluffing, etc.

I play it this way with my son. I don't think he's going to live his life scarred by the Old Maid like I have.