Price: $21.99 - $15.39
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Fairytale Spin-to-Play Game will take you to a faraway land! Players spin to select the elements for their fairy tale. When they have collected a scene, a hero, a magical helper, a rival, a magical object, transportation, and a treasure, they tell the tale that these elements evoke. Game extensions encourage compassion by suggesting using a misunderstood rival as a hero on occasion, and longer tales for two players. Illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell.
Recommended age: 5+ Winner of the Oppenheim Best Toy award
For 2 to 4 players
90% recycled materials
Winner of the Oppenheim Best Toy award
Reviewer: Lisa
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Revised Rules Make It A Success
Review: I bought this game for my daughter's 5th bday because she's been on a Red Riding Hood kick. My daughters (5 & 6) own a couple of these Eeboo spinner games. They're excellent quality for the money and they encourage imagination. However, I must say we've changed the rules.Eeboo rules are standard: Spin the spinner, then pick an item from the category you land on. If you already have one of that item, you lose a turn. If you land on "lose a turn", you lose a turn. Then, it's the next player's turn to try to land on an item. When we play by the Eeboo rules, these spinner games are TORTUROUS. Inevitably, we'd sit around for 20 minutes frustrated while someone tried to land on some needed category.Here's our "House Rules" and we play these games several times a week.1. Youngest goes first.2. Youngest spins and lands on a category, such as "Hero." Youngest picks "Hero" FIRST, then player to left picks a "Hero" around the circle until EVERYONE has a Hero.3. Next player spins and lands on a category, such as "Magical Object." Now, THAT player gets to pick FIRST, then around in the circle until every player has a "Magical Object."4. IGNORE "Lose a Turn." Just spin again.5. If you land on a category that's already been chosen, just spin again.6. When you're down to the very last category (ie everything except "Treasure" has been picked) that player simply picks their "Treasure" first, then everyone else picks a "Treasure." We don't sit around spinning for hours until the person actually lands on "Treasure."7. Now for what makes this game a hit--you use your pieces to make up a story. According to Eeboo, only the "winner" gets to make up a story about their pieces. Our House Rules say EVERYONE takes a turn making up a story about their pieces. This is the best part of the game, it's fun to hear what my girls come up with.We use this same version of rules for the Eeboo Dress Up game. Some people might not be into "changing rules", but for use it's made the games a lot more "kid friendly" and fun.

Reviewer: Jamie C
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great for teaching fairy tale elements
Review: Very helpful / fun activity to introduce elements of fairy tales with 1st graders. In a group of about 10, we created a story from this game / students will fight over who gets to be the princesses etc. of course but it ended up working well to kickstart the unit

Reviewer: e&asmommy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: House favorite!
Review: This game is fantastic! My 5 year old begs to play it multiple times everyday. The 2 1/2 year old loves it as well. The only change we make to the game is dropping the requirement to get a place first. We spin until there is a winner with all the pieces. Then we spin a few more times until everyone else has thier pieces. If the game goes on to long we just pick the rest of the pieces with the youngest picking first. Then everyone has to tell a story. That is the favorite part of the game. My 5 year old is getting pretty good at making up more detailed stories. And even the 2 1/2 year old tells her own stories. They are hysterical! If you have little ones who needs to exercise thier imagination, this is a must have. The pieces seem pretty sturdy and it is very easy to play.

Reviewer: M. Shaw
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Great Game for Encouraging Literacy Among Young Children
Review: This is not a game. It is an educational activity in game form. My granddaughter and I began by playing it pretty much by the rules and then when she (age 4) told her story, I wrote it down and made her a book based on her very clever dictation. However, now we dispense with the rules and use the figures to continue the story. I jot down the main actions and dialogue and we are off on an adventure of writing a chapter book. My granddaughter (now 5 and in kinder) and I sit for hours telling the story, even including time travel and different realities and 90% of it is her imagination. I type up the pages and we read them and revise. We look for words she has been learning in school and enrich her learning . There are so many "educational toys" out there that claim to teach reading. They don't. This does if you want to take the time to use it for that. Even if you just write short, one paragraph stories , you can put them in book form and use them the same way. And the great part is that she is doing the leading and she is the one who doesn't want it to end. It will result in a book that she will have to remember our relationship and how we worked together. I am an early childhood literacy specialist with a Ph.D in Reading, language and Cognition and decades of teaching young children.

Reviewer: Megan Talley
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Had lots of fun!
Review: We got this game for our 5 year old, and he loves it. It’s a very well designed game, with beautiful, durable pieces, and it’s great at encouraging creativity and silliness (as well as basic gaming skills like taking turns and sharing). We’ll definitely be playing again, and it’s so well made that it will likely last a long time.

Reviewer: Kim
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Big hit!
Review: I bought this game for my 5 year old niece, and she LOVES it. We play it all the time. To keep it from getting stale, we play by "Auntie Kimmy rules" where anything can be anything: the king can be the rival, the ogre can be the hero, etc. It makes for some fun stories and helps teach her to think outside of the box. It lets my 18mo nephew participate too, since he can help pick out pieces.However, I do have to agree that the spinner is awful. For a game that relies on the spinner almost completely for gameplay, that's a huge disadvantage. My niece doesn't seem to mind too much, but she can get frustrated with it after we've played a few times in a row. Still, it doesn't stop her from asking to play almost every day.

Reviewer: pumpkinpicker
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun for all ages
Review: Birthday gift for a 5-year old. Fun for everyone. Alternate rules - when someone spins, they get first pick for that object, then everyone picks, too. Speeds up the game and gets everyone to the storyline, which is the fun part. Great gift idea. Recommend.

Reviewer: Romantic Realist
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Great storytelling game