The Wonder Forge Dr Seuss Super Stretchy ABCs

by Wonder Forge

• Reinforces early reading skills
• Active play - promotes physical activity
• Beginner word building
• Gets kids twisting, turning and stretching
• Includes colorful oversized super stretchy game mat

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15.8 x 3 x 10.5 inches ; 1.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Origin: China
• ASIN: 0981924840
• Item model number: 01016
• Manufacturer recommended age: 36 months - 6 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,269 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)

Product Description

Get wild, twisty, turny, and super-stretchy in this imaginative, active game! Thing One and Thing Two are whirling up a tornado of fun! Stretch to the letters on the giant floor mat! How many toys can you get back in your box? There are hundreds of body-twisting, letter-matching challenges, and every game is super-stretchy fun!

Alphabet learning fun!

Collect the toys!

Twisty, turny, active play!
In this social, active game, Dr. Seuss comes to life in a whole new way! Whirl the Thing One and Thing Two tornado to deal out letter-to-body-part challenges. Then get ready to twist, turn, and s-t-r-e-t-c-h on your belly and back! Can you touch your hand to the E … while putting your foot on the K … and also place your ear on the Q? Perfect for playdates, parties, sleepovers, and rainy days, this game offers lots of active play plus great preschool learning fun with letter name and sound recognition, and great confidence-building opportunities with every turn.

How to play, snapshot!
Set out the alphabet mat and give each player a toy box. Gather the coins, mix them up and stack them into the tornado tube. Draw one Secret Letter card and place it face down on the tornado board. On your turn, stand on the Alphabet Mat. The Callers will rotate the Tornado Tube in a circle which will drop coins into five holes in the Tornado Board. Now it’s up to you to complete as many call outs as possible—you’ll earn a coin for each one! Collect as many letter coins as you can. If you have the coin with the Secret Letter on it at the end of the game, you win!

Quality
Wonder Forge has won over 120 prestigious awards by creating good-for-you games that encourage teamwork, healthy competition, and get-up-and-go active play! Dr. Seuss Super Stretchy ABCs Game is a winner of the 2009 Creative Child Game of the Year Award, 2009 Oppenheim Platinum Award, 2009 The National Parenting Center Seal of Approval, 2010 Canadian Toy Test Council 3 Stars, 2009 Parents’ Choice Gold Award, and 2010 Oppenheim Best Toys for Kids with ADHD.

What's In The Box?
1 Alphabet Mat, 1 Tornado Board, 36 Coins, 26 Secret Letter Cards, 4 Toy Boxes, and 1 Rules Manual. This game is intended for 2 to 4 players, ages 3 and up!

Twist and turn!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Dr Seuss Super Stretchy November 30, 2009

By GiGi

Amazon Verified Purchase

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

Purchased this product for a November 2009 birthday. The recipient was a four year old boy. It kept his attention and he enjoyed the competition. He was a little too short to stretch all items, but we compensated for him. It was fun for all of us playing. It challenged his ability to follow directions and execute the required movement and would be considered age appropriate.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Too much of a good thing? October 10, 2009

By S. T. Amatangelo

Durability: 3.0 out of 5 stars    Educational: 3.0 out of 5 stars    Fun: 3.0 out of 5 stars   

I played this game with my 4-year-old son. (It is designed for children ages 3 and up.) I almost gave up entirely, at first, because my son was fascinated by all the different parts of the game: the tornado, the little chips/coins, and so on. Once he settled down, we began to play. One problem I found was that it was impossible, for both me and my son, to touch our ear to any of the letters. I used to play Twister as a kid (and this game is an educational twist on Twister, since they have to be able to recognize the alphabet), so I was interested in the physical aspect of the game; however, we had no success with getting our ears to touch the mat. The creators of the game could have limited themselves to hands and feet, or added elbows and knees.

The tornado motiv is fun, but the footprints that signal the end of the game seem superfluous to me.

All things considered, a fun and educational game. But I think that the creators tried too hard to distinguish it from Twister (which was simpler).

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The most education game for Preschool/Kindergarten age December 9, 2010

By Missouri Mommy

Durability: 4.0 out of 5 stars    Educational: 5.0 out of 5 stars    Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

We are a gaming family. We love board games, card games and video games. Out of the many, many games we have in our house, this has got to be the most educational and fun at the same time combo game. My children (3 and 4 when we bought it, now almost 5 and 6 years old) consistently come back and ask to play this game. It teaches patience in taking turns, and great letter recognition (early reading skills) and social interaction.

Taking turns - It is still engaging while you are waiting for your turn. One player can operate the board and call out the letters and pictures, while the other plays trying to find the various letters on the mat.

Social interaction - we cheer each other on, and interact to help each other find and reach for the right letter or picture.

Letter recognition - to play you look at the letters that come up on the chips on the board, then find those same letters or pictures on the mat. You place the corresponding body part (ear, hand, foot) on the letter on the mat. It's a silly game, which captivates easily distracted young ones, and "tricks" them into learning.

This game earns it's critic acclaims (It has won the Oppenheim Platinum Toy Award). I keep thinking at some point my kids will outgrow this, but they love it still. We love it so much we have purchased one for my son's kindergarten classroom.

Don't pass this game up. I cannot say enough good about it. The only incredibly small issue I have is the little "collection boxes" that you use to hold your chips are a bit flimsy cardboard, but nothing a bit of tape cannot fix if needed. Also, it's good to get 3-4 ziploc bags to contain all the pieces in an organized fashion.