Review -Bananagrams Products

After watching a few other bloggers compete with virtual games of Bananagrams I was excited to be offered the opportunity to review some of Bananagrams products.

Fruitominos

A more child friendly and appealing game of dominos. Snaffles has recently started playing dominos but tends to get overwhelmed by all the black tiles and white dots. Sometimes he can't see what numbers he has for all the dots. Fruitominos replace the white dots with fruit. We loved the white ceramic tiles, the fruit made the numbers easier to recognise and a zip up case is much more practical than the traditional domino box. 

A big thumbs up from Snaffles.

Appletters

 Snaffles has just turned 5 (yesterday) and is in reception year at school. He knows his phonics and is at the stage where he is learning to join letters up to form words.  To play Appletters you make words beginning or ending with the last tile played. We have been playing this with the words Snaffles thinks of and I try and incorporate the school wordgs he is supposed to be learning. He struggles with words ending in a certain letter so we stick to words beginning with. Thats the simplicity of it. It's a bag of lettered tiles, you play to suit your age and ability.

Great educational fun. Again, we loved the zip up apple shaped storage bag.

Bananagrams

A similar concept to scrabble but no board. Fun, portable and addictive. Snaffles is too young for this really. Mummy isn't though. 

What better way to test it out than to join A Mother's Ramblings January Bananagram challenge. Pippa has a special set of Bananagrams which are magnetic. I am tempted to put magnets on mine but little fingers and mouths mean I can't at the minute. You know your addicted when you make it your mission to use every tile (which I achieved).

For the hard core addicts who possess Apple products there is now a Bananagram app.

Great games for all the family.