Ochard Toys – Monster Catcher Review & Giveaway
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Monster Catchers - As you know we adore Orchard Toys and have a good number of them already (check out Round and Round, Pop To The Shops, Where in The Woods).
Today, we got to play the fabulous “Monster Catcher” – brand new at Orchard Toys and totally adorable. Officially it is for 3years plus. As I have an (almost) 3year old and a 4.5years old, we sometimes have to adapt the rules. Which is great, because we can slowly introduce The Girl, to following rules, whilst making it fun for both kids.
The game is all about “collecting” two parts of the monster. Depending on what card you get you can either “pick a monster card to complete your set”, “lose one of your monsters” or, if some monsters have already been caught “rescue some monsters”. So you have a matching game with the added “twist” of potential losses and gains. Great fun.
A simplified version of playing this, is to start your littlies off with a “monster match” game. Then, as they get used to taking turns and “winning and losing”, you can introduce the “monster losing/ catching element” making it interesting for everyone!
From a parents perspective – it is great to practice learning colours, we love counting the number of eyes each monster has (the purple one is a little tricky) and it is a great game to teach The Girls following rules with.
As always.. We love it!
Would you like to win one?
Simply, leave a comment below, telling us what your favourite Orchard Toy game is and why.
T&C
1) One entry per person.
2) Open to the UK only.
3) Giveaway closes on 12 Sept 2012 at 11pm GMT.
4) Winner will be picked at random.
5) It is Orchard Toy’s responsibility to deliver the prize and not Red Ted Art’s.
Disclaimer: Orchard Toys kindly sent us one of the games to play.
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My favourite Orchard toy game is “Walk the plank” because no one gets board whilst its someone else’s turn, because everyone moves on every throw of the dice. Plus you get to shout “walk the plank” a lot.
Looks like a great game! We like Spotty Dogs, it’s a really good way to each numbers to young children, and it doesn’t take too long to play which is good for short attention spans!
Looks fab. I think the girls’ favourite is Shopping List, because they love filling the trolley. I love Monster Bingo, though, as it’s great for teaching colours and shapes and can be used for other languages, with no adaptation. (Actually, we pretty much like any and all Orchard Games we’ve ever tried!)
I love the look of the Doodlebugs Game and Spud said he liked Greedy Gorilla
Yes, my daughter’favourite is also the shopping list , she just loves it
We love The Game Of Ladybirds! It is really simple and great fun!
We love the shopping game @MummyFever
I love the Yo Ho Ho game. We are passive pirate fans – just what you’d expect from a family living in the Westcountry
@caro_mad
We don’t have any Orchard Games yet,a few on our present suggestion list, but I have one similar to pick and mix people from my childhood. We loved that game as kids and my daughter and I love playing our very very simple game with it.
We’ve got Spotty Dogs, so it’s our favourite and although LO doesn’t ‘play’ the game as such – yet, he loves looking at the dog cards & messing with the spinner.
Sam @happyhomebird
My daughter loves shopping list because she loves shopping and spending money.
The shopping list game is brilliant!
I’ve got two daughters- so, yes, we play the shopping game – A LOT !!!
love orhard games for their quality and making education fun!
My sone loves monsters x
My son loves Greedy Gorilla – its so much fun!
Shopping List for me – oh if only I could do the weekly shop in such an easy and fun manner!
My favourite Orchid Toys game is Greedy Gorilla as it’s a great way of teaching kids about healthy foods. They just love the burping sounds from the gorilla when you feed him junk food! Unfortunately ours no longer burps because it has been played so often! (although I was starting to think they were getting slightly too enthusiastic with all the burping!.
Monster catcher looks like great fun, I would love to win this!
Love the game of ladybirds
OUR FAV IS THE GREEDY GORILLA – FUN AS WELL AS TEACHING
We don’t have any yet (little boy a bit young) but we’ll definitely be getting some – spotty dogs looks like a winner since we’ve got a dog of our own
Shopping list, because which girl doesn’t like shopping
We love spotty dogs!
Great prize
The Shopping list game as itis not only fun but it is educational too. As a qualified and experieced primary school teacher, I always had several copies in my classroom and now as a full time mum, I have a copy at home too!
My kids love the shopping list game
shopping list game is my little girls favourite x
My favourite game is “Greedy Gorilla” because I think all games should be fun and educational at the same time. Toys are the biggest way to get messages across to children!
We love shopping list and all the puzzles.
Old Macdonald Lotto is brilliant, my 4 year old daughter has loved it since she was 2. Perfect for teaching little ones all about taking turns, and a handy spinner instead of fiddly dice.
We love Shopping List – easy for children of mixed ages to play and also customisable to make getting a full list harder (by drawing items out in order they appear on the card).
My favourite game is crazy chefs. perfect to help teach your little one about the different types of food as well as the meaning between healthy and unhealthy x
Spotty Dogs is so much fun!
We Love the Shopping List Game – Easy and quick to play – certainly does the job when its raining!!
Have played and played and played and played …. the Shopping List game with my grandchildren – endless fun !
the next generations going to enjoy this thxs
We love shopping list. Any food related game works well for us!
so hard to pick a favourite – love crazy chef and also head, shoulders, knees and toes – its great fun with the singing too!
If you see a crocodile is our favourite – we all like screaming if we pick up a crocodile card!
yo ho ho game looks great would love to try it
The shopping List keeps my daughter entertained for ages
Spotty Dog is favourite because it always keeps children entertained
Shopping list game, my daughter loves it
Me and my daughter love playing the Run, Run as Fast as You Can game, she loves the book hence the reason for her love of the game.
Farm Snap. Easy and fun
great game so simple to play
Shopping List – All 3 of my children have loved this game and It’s stood the test of time
My son loves Shopping List, he love to find all the items on his list as quick as he can (and I am sure he cheats a little too).
my son loves pirates so we play yo ho ho a lot
@emmav6
Shopping List!
Looks great, my little boy would love it
My grandchildren would love this
Spotty dogs is great fun
Spotty Dogs. Quick and easy to play. My son loves it!
My son would love this!
Red Dog, Blue Dog, is my eldest two children’s current favourite. I’m sure they’d like the new Monster game as all Orchard Toys (yes we like the shopping trolley game too!) are great for young children.
My 3 and 5 year old love playing Shopping List
@pipersky1
Walk the Plank
We love the ladybird game because everyone can play. Youngest can match the dots on the dice whilst slightly older one can count. We have several Orchard games and they are the only brand I buy for gifts to other kids too.
Please enter me in the draw.
Me and my daughter love playing orchard games, this looks great fun.
we love the game of ladybirds
would love to win for my little girl to play
we love the shopping list game in our house as its me and my girls most days while OH at work
Greedy Gorilla is always out in our house – long may it continue
Monster Catchers sounds like this could become our favourite – now where is my little monster? – I wish I could catch him! – he’s giving me the runaround today!
Greedy Gorilla, our family has had hours of fun playing
Greedy gorilla is our favourite. Educational and fun!
My granddaughter would love this
My nephew loves the greedy gorilla game because it’s really funny!
Ladybirds is a fav
has to be ladybirds-perfect for all the little ones in my house x
Shopping List! My daughter adores it! x
walk the plank is good as everyone turn at the same time
Shopping list is always on in our house
what a lovely prize, perfect for small children (and young at heart adults_
We love old MacDonald Lotto – it was the first Orchard game we bought my daughter and she still isn’t bored of it. We have lots of giggles making the animal sounds and talking about the animals. It’s been really easy to adapt the rules to suit her understanding so it has lasted for ages. She also loves shopping list and dotty dinosaurs so we’ll definitely be looking out for another game for her birthday next month.
My favourite game is Pop to the Shops. I like it because all of my three children enjoy playing it,regardless of their ages, and it’s fun!!
crazy chef is our fav
my favourite is shopping list as it helps my son’s memory development and he even reminds me when i forget things!
Would love this to play with my grandsons as I feel its very imortant to learn how to ‘play’ board type games
Great prize my son would love it
we love the shopping list game!
the kids i work with would love this
my daughter and i love the time game it has given her a good understanding of time at a time when her class are all doing this subject
the shopping list would be my daughters fav
My kids love Lunch Box Game
Our fave is shopping list
im a childminder and love the orchard games but our favourite is shoping list x
spotty dogs, my daughters obsessed x
My son and I love to play Run Run As Fast As You Can, its fun and helps with numbers
My children would love this. We are orchard toy mad & have nearly every one so this would be a perfect addition!
Greedy gorilla
Love Farm Snap!!! Mine and my 2 daughters favourite game.
I like ‘Walk the Plank’ my pirate mad son thinks it’s brilliant and really easy to understand how to play too
Our family favourite is Jelly Elephants because it is my daughters best game. She loves it.
We love shopping list in this house. Weve played it at least 1000 times!
This game looks fun!
(Love Ladybirds)
The shopping list game is fun
I like the look of the farmyard dominoes as my daughter loves going to the farm, and dominoes is a game that stands the test of time.
Pop to the shops
Greedy gorillas is a hoot
Jelly elephants. It’s my eldest child’s favourite game. He’s 4 and he asks me to play every day
Walk the plank is my little boys favourite because of the shouting.
My daughter loves shopping list she loves food related games to play with Grandma when she comes to stay.
The Magic Cauldron Game, because it teaches maths but is still fun.
We can play the shopping list game for hours!
My kids love the shopping list
We love Orchard Games so would love this one to add to our collection x
i love monsters!
my little girls favourite is shoppimg list x
greedy gorilla is a firm fave here
Greedy Gorilla – great fun!
my daughter loves the shopping list game xx
We as a family love Two By Two. It is a beautiful looking game, with the lovely ark and very colourful animal cards. Its educational but most of all fun, and because of the different games you can play with it it suits a wide age range too
Shopping list
WALK THE PLANK BECAUSE WE ARE ALL PIRATE CRAZY
I love Flounders, a reminder of my own childhood and also a great game for numbers and matching.
Our favourite game so far is What a Performance! Such a fun game and even the grown ups get to be silly, because it’s in the rules!
Great giveaway! – Looks a fab game. Think my daughter’s favourite Orchard Toys game would have to be Shopping List. But tbh she also loves The Game of Ladybirds.
I don’t actually have any but looking through the website there look to be lots of lovely ones. Red dog, blue dog, would probably be first on my shopping list as our baby is only just a year so this would be a nice easy on for her to pick up.
The shopping list game. My girls love this – it’s so easy for them to play (though they always fight over who gets the list with the sweets on!)
my daughter loves the shopping list x
Spotty dogs is a favourite in our house with my little monsters x
My son loves the walk the plank game
My little boy loves Pick and Mix people, he thinks its hilarious!
My daughter loves tummy ache
spotty dog
Another vote here for shopping list!
My 2 yr old loves matching games!
I love Rhyme Robber as it introduces simple rhymes easily at a young age
I’d love to win.
My favourite Orchard Toys game is “Where’s my Cupcake?”, I’m a cupcake fanatic, so its an obvious choice
Yo Ho Ho game is my little pirates favourite!
shopping list is fun
My daughter would love Shopping List – it’s very ‘growed up’ she says
We love Shopping List.
spotty dog.
Not got any yet
But Walk the Plank is on the Xmas list 
We only have crazy chef, they have played other orchard games at school though, after reading this list we may have to invest in shopping list though!
happy families!
Can’t say I know any Orchard Games but this one looks Fab
My daughter loves her Old MacDonald Lotto game – really fun and great for toddlers
we don’t have any orchard toys games yet
first I’ve heard of them… but will definitely be on the lookout for them in the shops now… they look fab… learning whilst playing – great!
grandchildren will love it