Games Are Child's Play for Specialty Companies

No happier sound exists than children’s voices rising and falling in laughter and delight! Grownups love to orchestrate this beautiful music by playing games with children. Many households celebrate “family night” — a treasured time set aside to bond over treats and games. Fortunately, specialty companies like FamilyTimeFun, Endless Games, Professor Noggin’s, and GEOToys offer entertaining children’s games that are also educational. Kids and parents alike have a blast learning fun facts, while their playtime is punctuated with harmonious bursts of laughter!

FamilyTimeFun™ Serves Up a Tasty Menu of Family Games

Dinnertime with young children can be a frustrating experience for even the most patient of parents. Getting kids to sit still at the dinner table and eat properly is now easier and more enjoyable with games from FamilyTimeFun! The company’s silly and educational word games add playful learning to home and restaurant dining. These highly-portable games also give parents a much-needed break from those endless cries of, “are we there yet?” by entertaining kids in cars and on airplanes.

Created by John Pandiscio, FamilyTimeFun™ games reclaim both quality family time and a few dollars for the wallet with savings on two combination specials. At just $28.71, the Dinner Games Combo Special is an incredible bargain that includes instructions for more than 100 different games to play! The Beginner Dinner Game treats children, ages 3 to 6, to 51 games including Fruity Feeling and Magic Spoon, which teach expressive language, creative thinking, and social skills. The Original Dinner Game for kids ages 6 to 12 serves up 51 favorite game staples, like “Guess the Macaroni” and “Pass the Pepper.”

At $39.92, the Gather ‘Round Combo presents two 132-game collections of push-button action games for kids ages 5 and up. Both the at-home Gather ‘Round Dinner Game and the Restaurant/Travel Game offer whacky challenges, such as “name purple foods” or “list 5 bugs that could land on your windshield.” The Restaurant/Travel game is compact and generates no sounds to disturb fellow diners.

To peruse the complete menu of FamilyTimeFun games, visit www.ftfgames.com

A-Bee-C Match Game Creates Endless Buzz!

What educational products can retailers offer to parents whose kids are too young to spell and too busy buzzing here and there to learn? How about the A-Bee-C Match Game from Endless Games? This honey of a game teaches young children simple words, while capturing their attention with brightly colored animal cards and an adorable hollow bee filled to the brim with fun letter-stamped dice. Kids don’t have to know how to spell to play this game — they only have to match the lettered dice to the letters on the picture cards. If they finish the word on any card, they win the card! Collecting seven cards wins the game.

The A-Bee-C Match Game takes its name from its appealing carrying case, which is shaped and colored to look like a cute black-and-yellow striped bee. The innovative case splits open to become two shaker cups for throwing the dice. The game is recommended for children ages 5 years and up. It’s the perfect size to fit into a Christmas stocking and just the right price to fit any budget at $14.95.

To add the A-Bee-C Match Game, and other family favorites like Family Feud, Password, and The Newlywed Game to your store’s shelves, make your next move a visit to www.endlessgames.com

Professor Noggin’s Card Games Boost Brainpower!

Multiply the number of Professor Noggin’s card games categories by the available topics and then by the number of questions on each playing card, and the answer is an award-winning lineup of cool products focused on fun, learning, and family togetherness!

Subjects for Professor Noggin’s Card Games from Outset Media run the gamut from science and nature through geography, history, and wonders of the world. The boxed games are designed for families with children ages 7 and up. Each game includes a die and 30 illustrated question/fact cards that tickle kids’ imaginations and focus on real learning.

Play is simple with a choice of two skill levels, while questions range from serious to seriously childish:

• What substance in the Earth’s core creates our planet’s magnetic field?
• How much snot does the average person swallow every day?
• Why is it a good idea to occasionally feed carnivorous turtles live fish?

David Manga, Outset Media president, offers retailers a variety of eye-catching displays and solid reasons for buying games from the company, which include minimum orders of just one case, easy returns of unsold games, next business day shipping, and extended business/service hours from coast to coast.

Stocking Professor Noggin’s fantastic card games is a no-brainer! For more information, visit www.outsetmedia.com

GEOToys’ GeoCards Are a Capital Idea

Five different card games and flash cards in one, GEOToys’ GeoCards challenge players with a world of fun geographical facts on 50 countries, including Australia, the Philippines, Britain, Morocco, and Argentina. The colorful jumbo cards are perfectly sized for little fingers to handle, with plenty of room to display a map on one side and capital and land area information on the flip side. Games are designed to engage one to four players, ages six and up.

For adults who want to focus their children’s natural curiosity closer to home, GeoCards USA presents similar opportunities for learning and amusement. Also packaged as a set of 50 jumbo cards, each bears a map of an American state on one side and data on the state’s capital, population, nickname and land area on the other.

GeoCards were invented by Bob Galinsky, the founder and President of GEOToys, to help his own children learn geography. A father of three, he believes children who learn about the world will do more to protect it. In support of that belief, Bob donates a portion of GEOToys profits to geography education. Suggested retail price for GeoCards or GeoCards USA is $12.99.

To fill your store with a world of educational games, take a trip today to www.geotoystore.com