Customer Reviews

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Game

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1 star:		(4)

 

 

This is one of the worst children's games I ever played. There are caterpillars to move around, but they don't really go anywhere, and it's so simple that even my 3 year old is completely bored with it. Buy any other game but this one!

This is a great game for very young kids who are just learning shapes and colors. It is not a game that you will ever play again after the kids are 4-5 but it was the first board game they learned to play.

If I could give this game lower than one star I would. The game comes with a spinner that has the numbers 1-4 and then a moon. Every 4 spaces on the game board you have to stop. The moon is a lose a turn space. So there's a lot of spinning and not much counting because the players are constantly stopping. Some spaces you have to feed your caterpillar a certain type of food (fruit, picnic food, etc). At that point you spin to see how much food to give your caterpillar. This is confusing for kids because the spinner now is used for something other than movement. Near the end of the game you have to wait on a space until you spin a moon. Frustrating.

Terrible game design - game designer tried to follow the plot of the book way too much, and as a result anything educational is lost.

Save your money on this one.

Don't bother with this game! I'm a pre-school teacher who bought this game for my class of 3-5 yr. olds as we are doing "A Very Hungry Caterpillar" unit. While I understand what the game creator was trying to cover (number recognition and counting, one-to-one correspondence, matching, the butterfly life cycle), the game itself is poorly thought out. Way too much stopping and waiting (it can take forever to spin a moon...) which makes the game boring and frustrating for kids. In addition, the caterpillar playing pieces are small cardboard boxes, which easily rip when inserting the tabs in place to make them. I had to tape two of the playing pieces before one game was even played! Not worth your money...

We got this for my daughter when she was 4. It is terrible and incredibly boring and pointless. The pieces are not sturdy at all, made completely of cardboard. There is really no point to the game, it is redundant and not even fun for a 4 or 5 year old. A big disappointment, especially being named after such a great kids book!

My five year old loves this game,and I actually don't mind playing it. Not Pointless. Object of game is to collect food and turn into a butterfly. It's very simple,but educational for pre-schoolers.