Review: Orchard Toys Mini Travel Games [AD]

Disclosure: This post includes a gifted product we were sent for review. All opinions are our own.

With the summer holidays quickly approaching, my mind has been turning to how I will keep my boys entertained while we are on vacation. I’ll be flying over to Germany with the boys for two weeks, with one suitcase between the three of us, so space will be at a premium and we’ll have to do some clever packing. So it was perfect timing that Orchard Toys sent us a couple of their mini games to review.

First, we tried out the ‘Little Bug Bingo‘. The box includes four bingo cards, 20 picture cards, and 34 leaf tokens.

Players take it in turn to to turn over a picture card. Whoever has the matching picture on their board – it could be more than person! – get to take a leaf counter and put it on their board on top of the relevant picture.

The winner is the first person to fill their entire board with leaf counters and shout “Bingo!” As well as being a real fun game to play, this is a great way to learn about different kinds of creepy crawlies and their names.

The game is for 2 to 4 players, and is recommended for ages 3-6, though my 7 year old has been enjoying it too.

The second game we were sent, was called ‘Spiders and Spouts‘, and includes one playing board made up of six jigsaw pieces, four spider tokens, and a die.

Before you start the game, you piece together the jigsaw pieces to create the board, and each player choses a spider token and places it on start.

The game is essentially a version of snakes and ladders, except instead of going up a ladder you go up if you land on a spout, and instead of sliding down snakes you go down if you land on a rain cloud. Be prepared for your kids to be singing lots of rounds of ‘Incy Wincy Spider’! The first player to reach ‘Finish’ wins the game.

The game is for 2 to 4 players, and is recommended for ages 4 to 7. My 3 year old did join in, though he cheated a lot because he basically just wanted his slider to climb up all the spouts! My 7 year old thought the sad little rain clouds were really cute, lol.

I love both these games, because they are simple and straight forward. There’s no complicated instructions to get your head round and you can just crack open the box and get going. And as with all Orchard Toys games, the games are really good, sturdy quality and the illustrations are lovely. Both games are super compact, and won’t take up much space in your luggage, and at only £5 each they won’t break the bank either, which is great because as we all know, holidays are expensive enough as it is. So a winner all round, I’d say! Your only problem will be choosing which games to take with you on holiday, as there are a dozen to choose from.

Disclosure: We received one free copy each of Little Bugs Bingo, and Spiders and Spouts, in exchange for an honest review. All words and opinions are our own. 

Comments: 9

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    5 July 2018

    We are absolutely Orchard Toys obsessed! My eldest daughter would have us playing Bug Bingo all day everyday if she could :)

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    5 July 2018

    We love Orchard Toys I didn’t realise they had a range of mini travel games how handy for the upcoming summer holiday travel period!

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    Marie

    6 July 2018

    These atre cute, perfect to travel with and a good way to keep the brain engaged.

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    6 July 2018

    These are great learning toys.

    All mine had these when they were younger :)

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    6 July 2018

    These sounds great. We love Orchard Toys Games and I bought a few more to add to our collection recently including two mini ones, although they are different to yours.

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    7 July 2018

    These toys look great! That bingo one would be perfect for my four year old and I love that the spider one is also a puzzle xx

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    10 July 2018

    Orchard toys are fab aren’t they! I love how these are perfectly sized for travel and the prices are so reasonable too. I’m going to have a closer look as we’ll need something like this for August

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