I really hate playing Happy Families. As a grown up it seems like such a pointless sorting exercise. I can’t understand why my son loves it so much. Luckily we have several other card games which we can all enjoy together… Bird Top Trumps - or any Top Trumps. He played this daily for a long, long time (he got it when he had just turned 3). It’s the reason he learnt to read 3-digit numbers so quickly - snowy owls and bald eagles have big wingspans! Since those heady days though we have moved on to some more interesting games — which is not to say Top Trumps has been forgotten.
We greatly enjoyed playing Sleeping Queens; exciting - as well as a great incentive for quick practise of number bonds.
We greatly enjoyed playing Sleeping Queens; exciting - as well as a great incentive for quick practise of number bonds.