Educational Insights The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game – Cute Preschool Board Games for Kids, Toddler Fine Motor Skills, Color Matching Kids Games and Fun Gifts for Girls & Boys Ages 3+
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Your hungry forest friends need your help! Spin the spinner, use the squirrel squeezer to retrieve the matching-colored acorn, and place it into your log. Be the first to collect all 5 colors and you win! Easy to understand & play, but be strategic – not every spin guarantees an acorn, and you may have to steal from another player before they steal from you! Includes 1 squirrel squeezer, 20 colored acorns, 4 logs, 1 spinner, and a gameboard (doubles as packaging)
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A SWEET STRATEGY GAME FOR PRESCHOOLERS: This board game reinforces color learning, encourages strategic thinking, and develops hand-eye coordination, dexterity, & matching skills; no reading required
HOW TO PLAY: Spin the spinner and use the squirrel squeezer to fill your log with one of each color acorn, but watch out for wind storms and other players who might want to steal the win
SPARK MORE TOGETHERNESS: Bring early learning to family game night as toddlers build fine motor and key social emotional skills including taking turns, sharing, and winning and losing gracefully
INCLUDES: Sneaky the Squirrel Squeezer, 20 acorns in 5 colors, 1 spinner, 4 logs, instruction guide, and tree-shaped game board that doubles as the box for easy setup, cleanup, and storage
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Customers say
Customers find this board game engaging and easy to learn, with adorable acorns and tweezers that make it visually appealing. The game is suitable for children of different ages and abilities, helping develop fine motor skills and color recognition through matching activities. Customers appreciate its educational value, noting it teaches taking turns, following rules, and being a good sport.
12 reviews for Educational Insights The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game – Cute Preschool Board Games for Kids, Toddler Fine Motor Skills, Color Matching Kids Games and Fun Gifts for Girls & Boys Ages 3+
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Lindsey Pryslak –
Perfect Game for Little Hands and Growing Minds!
T his squirrel game is a huge hit in our house! Itâs super easy for toddlers to learn, and the gameplay is just the right length to hold their attention. Itâs fantastic for building fine motor skillsâusing the squirrel tweezers to pick up the acorns is both fun and great for hand-eye coordination.The game also naturally teaches colors, counting, and taking turns, which makes it a great learning tool without feeling like a lesson. Even older kids (and adults!) enjoy playing along, which makes it a fun family activity. Highly recommend for toddlers and preschoolers!
A. Green –
Perfect Toddler Game!
Adorable fun game for toddlers! Easy to understand and use the little squirrel “tweezers” to pick up the acorns. Well-made and lots of different ways to play to increase / decrease difficulty based on age and development.
C. Winmon –
Great game for little ones!
This is such a fun game for little ones! Emphasizes color recognition and matching, counting, taking turns, fair play, and winning and losing! The hardest part was for my little one to be able to grasp the squirrel tightly enough to use as the pinchers for picking up acorns. There is a space you can spin where you can sneak an acorn from another player and a space where the wind blows all your acorns away. I personally like these because it’s a gentle way of introducing them to strategy and the not-always-winning aspects of a game. It’s well made, we have had it for several years and it has been played by many kids! Even young 2 or 3 year olds can definitely play under close supervision since the acorns could be a choking hazard. We have this ourselves and have given it as a gift too. It’s always a hit!
Mandy –
Great quality and perfect for pre-k/k age
My 4 year old loves this game. It’s great for developing fine motor skills, colors, and playing with a group. It goes fast enough to where she stays engaged and doesn’t get bored. The quality of this game is excellent. The pieces are sturdy and this game will last. I will be looking for other games from this company because I am so impressed.
Miss Amy –
My 2 year old loves this game!
I bought this game for my 2 year old after seeing a recommendation on a Mom group page on Facebook. My daughter was interested in playing a game, but I was having trouble finding one that she could understand. This game is so cute! It’s easy to understand and fun to play. Now, it is recommended for 3 year olds and I do see why. My daughter loves when she spins a color and is starting to pick up on the squirrel pictures. She has a hard time understanding what the 1 and 2 mean. My goals for her are to understand the mechanics of playing a game, taking turns, recognizing colors, the fine motor skills, and knowing and following the rules. She practices all of those with this game! Highly recommend!
Christina –
Cutest Game
This game is really dear! My three-year-old enjoys it as well as my 10-year-old, and I do too actually 🙂 It is sometimes difficult to find toys/games we can all have fun with as a family but this one does not disappoint. I was a little worried that my daughter (age 3) would have a meltdown when she saw one of us “sneaking” one of her acorns or losing them all to the windstorm but she pleasantly surprised me. She really enjoys “sneaking” everyone else’s upon landing on that on her turn and there are plenty of giggles to go around. She also likes using the squirrel to pick up the acorns. I didn’t know if she would be able to successfully pick them up at first but since the acorns are made of a rubbery material they don’t slip out very easily at all. She would practice by picking them up with her own hands at first and set them in between the squirrel’s hands but by the end of the the first game she had it down! In my opinion, this is a great game. The usual board games move too slow or have too many rules to keep her attention but she was fully engaged from start to finish with this one and always asks to play again. It helps with identifying & matching colors, counting, taking turns and just being a good sport in general. My son has a lot of fun with it also and enjoys playing along with his sister. We keep playing after the first person wins until we are down to the last player so everyone feels like they won either 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th place and have had a chance to fill their entire “log.” With such a gap in age I am extremely happy when we score something that is equally fun for all. Would definitely recommend if you are looking for something easy to learn and engaging for younger ones.
Angela H. –
Perfect game for non-readers!
I introduced this game to my preschool class and they BEG to play it everyday. So easy, teaches colors, turn taking, aids fine motor skills. If you spin and land on the sneaky, snacky squirrel, you get to take an acorn that you need from another player and if the windstorm blows your acorns away you have to put them back in the tree 🙁 …. cooperative game play (another skill we are working on in preschool!) There is a plastic squirrel “tong” that the kids can use to pick up their acorn and place it in their log, and there are twists along the way … kids who are behind can spin to receive two acorns and come from behind to win! I would SO much rather play this game with kids than others that take forever and are hard for them. No reading necessary! The spinner has visuals, the kids catch on quickly, and they often beat me!This is my favorite gift to give little kids.
Lorena –
Primer juego de mesa para mi hija de tres años, y la verdad es que nos encanta y ha entendido la dinámica del juego en dos partidas.
Cheryl Soh –
3 years old and 5 years old boys love it very much. I personally like the game set, the whole board game is so cute and it train their motor skills and patience. Why patient? The reason being, little hands of children have difficulties to grasp the nut with the squirrel handle. So this really train their motor skills.
celine regent –
Acheter à Noël pour mon neveu de 2 ans. Permet de travailler la motricité fine, lâapprentissage des couleurs. Très sympa et ludique
Lilyfae –
This game was one of my daughters most coveted this Christmas after watching the YouTube demonstration it was all she would talk about for her Christmas list and she hasn’t been disappointed.This game is fun, colourful and creative but also excellent for young children to develop game skills of taking turns, spinning the wheel and strategy alongside counting, colours and fine motor skills in using the squirrel shaped tongs to select the coloured acorns.My daughter is small for her age and has struggled with the tongs but this is also good for encouraging resilience alongside hand strength and by continuing to try she is more confident and we have had to expand her game selection!For grown ups this game is excellent for reducing chaos of lost bits in that it is self contained and self storing, the box is the game ‘board’ and everything goes back in it without having to align bits of plastic with inner packaging everytime, just scoop and shut the lid, job done.Overall, I’m a fan of Learning Resources products despite their higher price you get quality pieces, this was worth the investment for us and is an excellent choice for the preschooler/reception aged child but wil still get value for older primary aged children as its competitive with the forfeit spins and fun overall.
Ally –
This game is simple and easy to play. It teaches turn taking, colour identification and matching. Both my 3 and 6 year old are able to play it with minimal adult supervision. It’s a fun family game for 4, that doesn’t take long to run through.Con- it doesn’t come with extra acorns so if any get lost you are down pieces and with 2 boys I feel like I’m always looking for one. The squirrel as the tongs is super cute and my kids love the idea. The squirrel is not the easiest to handle for young kids and we typically play without using it.