This day I love.......: Haba

This beautiful horse farm play set from Haba is great for both my girls, aged 3 and 1. The sturdy box unfolds to reveal the horse stables and farm. The lovely chunky wooden pieces are stored inside and can then be placed onto the farm. The wooden pieces are beautifully coloured in with some wonderful characters.

The horse farm play set can be used in a variety of ways. My eldest loves to play role play with them and her imagination really runs wild. My youngest loves to look at the different pieces and we talk about the different animals and shapes. We look at the colours and make horse and clip clop noises. She also loves to post the pieces back into the top of the box, a little like a shape sorter. Its great how the horse farm play set can be used by both girls in such different ways.

The Haba Horse Farm play set has become a firm favourite with both girls and they really love playing with it. I love how everything can be stored together and the only set up required is to unfold the lid of the box! The Haba Horse farm play set is available on the Toadstool.

I was sent the Haba Horse Farm play set to review from the toadstool as part of the toad tester program. All opinions are my own.

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I am always on the look out for good board games to play with the girls. The toadstool recently sent us Little Orchard by Haba to review. My daughter was very eager to play.

The game is suitable from 3 - 8 years and for 1 - 4 players My eldest daughter at 3 years old would happily sit and play this game by herself. My 16 month old definitely would not get the concept of the game and so I think age level is perhaps pitched right.

The aim of the game is to collect the cherries from the trees before the crow eats them all. Players roll a dice and then match the picture on the dice to a card, which is turned over to reveal the next action. A cherry indicates to take a cherry from the tree, a crow means the crow moves one step closer to the cherries and a sleeping animal means nothing happens.

My 3 year old understood the game straight away and often asks to play. She can set up the game with ease and is more than happy to play by herself or with others. I like how the game is stored neatly inside the box and the fact the box is small enough to be carried by a 3 year old. The colours are all lovely and bright and the images are really attractive to younger children.

Little Orchard encourages children to think, as they have decide what action to take based on the card. Look at colour and shape recognition. It also can encourage team work and taking turns. This is a really lovely game to play.

Here is my daughter playing Little Orchard

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