Noodleboro Picnic Basket Manners Game

by Playskool

Product Features

• Helping preschoolers learn about social skills just got a little bit easier and a lot more fun. Noodleboro games let you nurture kids' social skills naturally through multi-sensory play that leaves everyone laughing!
• Learn about Manners in this Picnic basket preschool game where good fun makes great kids! Its hard to have a perfect picnic party when the ants keep trying to steal your food! Just say "please" and "thank you" to send those pesky ants packing and collect
• Rachel refuses to use manners at the picnic with her friends. Read the book to see what happens when her big wish comes true and ends up making her feel "small"
• Three ways to reinforce social skills! Play the CD to get kids laughing, singing and sharing with a story and silly songs from Noodleboro's all-kid radio station!
• Game of learning manners.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.4 x 10.5 x 10.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0013WKAJA
• Item model number: 40503
• Manufacturer recommended age: 36 months - 6 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,307 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Helping preschoolers learn about social skills just got a little bit easier and a lot more fun. Noodleboro games let you nurture kids' social skills naturally through multi-sensory play that leaves everyone laughing! Each Noodleboro game comes with a storybook and an audio CD so kids can see, hear, play and then live each Noodleboro life lesson. Learn about Manners in this Picnic basket preschool game where good fun makes great kids! Its hard to have a perfect picnic party when the ants keep trying to steal your food! Just say "please" and "thank you" to send those pesky ants packing and collect all the items that will make the picnic a success. Rachel refuses to use manners at the picnic with her friends. Read the book to see what happens when her big wish comes true and ends up making her feel "small".Three ways to reinforce social skills! Play the CD to get kids laughing, singing and sharing with a story and silly songs from Noodleboro's all-kid radio station! Contents: Picnic basket, picnic blanket gameboard, 25 tokens, CD, Storybook, and instructions. CD player not included.

Product Description

Helping preschoolers learn about social skills just got a little bit easier and a lot more fun! Noodleboro games let you nurture kids? social skills naturally through multi-sensory play that leaves everyone laughing. Each Noodleboro game comes with a storybook and an audio CD so kids can see, hear, play and then live each life lesson. Meet the Noodleboro kids and reinforce listening with songs, stories and tips found in the companion book and CD.

Game for playtime: It's hard to have a perfect picnic party when ants keep trying to steal your food. Just say "please" and "thank you" to send those pesky ants packing and collect all the items that will make the picnic a success.

Book for storytime: Rachel refuses to use manners at the picnic with her friends. Read the book to see what happens when her big wish comes true and ends up making her feel "small."

Audio CD for anytime: Play the CD to get kids laughing, singing and sharing with a story and silly songs from Noodleboro's all-kid radio station. For 2-3 players.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Game, September 20, 2008

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Michelle Southwell (NY) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Noodleboro Picnic Basket Manners Game (Toy)

I got this game for my 4 year old nephew and it was a HUGE hit. The object is to collect the foods you need to have a picnic and match them to your spaces on the board. But you have to remember to say "please and thank you" otherwise you lose your turn. It's so nice to see a game that's fun and that teaches valuable lessons. And as a bonus it came with a book that we read about 6 times in one sitting and a cd with songs that he is still singing! Great game I would highly recommend. Keep up the good work Playskool.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good educational toy, February 24, 2009

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Judy Smith (Chicago, IL, USA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Noodleboro Picnic Basket Manners Game (Toy)

The Noodleboro picnic basket manners game is a good game to teach kids about good manners. Kids have to remember to keep saying "please" and "thank you". It helps to establish good manner through repetition of saying those words. The game rule is simple. It's ok for a three year old kid but a little boring for a five or six year old.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My boys love this game!, February 2, 2009

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Rachel Millar (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Noodleboro Picnic Basket Manners Game (Toy)

I'm so sorry to see this game being clearanced out! This is one of two Noodleboro games we purchased for our boys (ages 6, 4 and 9 months) for the holidays.

This was purchased with my 4 year old stepbaby in mind, though his 6 year old brother found himself enjoying it, too!

It's SUPER simple. This is a game for kids who have a hard time processing rules of more complicated games. Basically, you put the tokens in the picnic basket. On each turn the player asks, "May I have a token, please?" and you respond, "Yes, you may." They take a token which is either a picnic item of their color, another player's color, or an ant. They either keep the token or discard it. Then the player says, "Thank you." To win, you collect each of your color picnic items.

The boys LOVED "catching" their daddy and myself not using our manners! Ok, we pretended and over-emphasized so they'd catch it, but they had fun! Sometimes we'd slip in, "gimme a token!" or "I wannnnnnnaaaaa token!" in the way that they ask for things so that they'd recognize some of their own poor behaviors.

It's not a forever game. I think that most kids can easily start playing this when they start becoming interested in games, no matter what age is written on the box. I'd start them on this one even before Candyland, if that describes the simplicity enough. I'm definitely going to keep this game for the baby to enjoy when he's old enough.