eeBoo: Animal Village Create A Story Pre-Literacy Cards, 36 Cards Included in The Set, Encourages Imagination, Creativity and Story-Telling, for Ages 3 and up

This is the second storytelling card set I've purchased. This one is way cuter! The cards are lovely, great artwork and very interesting pictures that inspire more creative stories and challenge my kids more than the other set we tried (which were standard princess, rainbow, castle, - too predictable). My 3 yo and 5 yo have really loved using them to tell stories on their own and collaboratively, and use them to play school. Great gift idea for 5yo age group.

I bought this for my sons 5 & 8. We play this a couple of different ways. One way is for each person to take a card and make up a story about that card, and then the next person takes a card and builds onto the story. You also can lay all the cards out and build a sequential story. This card set is excellent for language development, memory recall, preparing for creative writing, as well as sparking the child's imagination!I could also see this as an excellent tool for play therapy, allowing the child to use the cards to talk about their feelings or perhaps what's going on in their life.Both of my sons truly enjoy playing with these, and it's fun to see where their imaginations lead their verbal storytelling. This set is fine for either boys or girls, it is gender neutral. The illustrations are colorful and engaging, showing many different characters, but at least three cards with the same character to allow a good story flow throughout the entire set. A few cards show all of the characters together doing different things, as is show on the box cover. A great price for a great purpose!

This was a gift for my 5-year old granddaughter - and it was quite the hit with great graphics and interesting animal characters. It's had durability too, since for the past 6 months when she visits overnight it's still a treasured pastime as we go through the cards and make up new stories about the now familiar characters. It's now a bedtime tradition and she seems to look forward to this even more than reading a story to her. Am about to order another set - the circus one.

I got this because *I* thought it would be cool, but to be honest, I really expected my kids not to care about this at all. Turned out to be a huge hit! They love "writing" stories and showing them to me and telling me the story that goes with the pictures. What an amazing way to inspire creative play. They always try to make really long stories, too. The possibilities are endless. I noticed even my 6 year old with PDDNOS likes this "game" and without getting into details, I'll just say that was the biggest surprise of all. Quality product, too, but we've gotten eeboo products in the past and have never been disappointed.

I bought these originally because I really love Stephanie Graegin's illustrations and love games from this genre.The cards really are beautiful as expected and strudy, but it is hard to make a comprehensive story out of them. Many of them relate onlyloosely to one another. You can still talk about what you see in every card but not exactly tomake a story.

My 7 year old likes to shuffle the cards and we pick the next one on top and have to make up a story. It's great for imagination, critical thinking to come up with the next part so it fits in with the story, lots of giggles, and language development. We received a deck as a gift once and now have all the decks. It's a great learning tool and fun game!

I was really excited for this set as my 3.5yr old is obsessed with hearing us make up stories and she is just starting to participate in telling them as well. Unfortunately this just isn't what I had imagined when I ordered it.I thought there would be more general cards of actions such as animals eating, swimming, walking, and cards of various settings such as playgrounds, etc that would allow you to come up with a variety of stories easily. Instead there seems to be a theme to the cards and a more obvious standard order to pull them together. My daughter hands me random cards and I certainly feel like I'm doing a great job of telling a story and pulling things together. But even with that it is really hard to go "off script" and have it be really different than the last one.This might be better purely for a young kid to learn how to tell a story then a way of injecting some spice into your creativity as a parent to tell stories. I had thought I would be buying more sets and mixing them together, but I can see that mixing sets would be impossible.A good idea, just not what I was looking for.

Lots of fun - probably a 4-5 year old and up will be able to play with independently - good for a car ride perhaps too. Our 3-yr old, needs/wants someone to "play" it with her - to suggest bits of the story to go with each card. But that's not bad as it's something you can do if low energy. One night when the family was gathered, we each took three cards. Baba (grandfather) started with one card which he showed to everyone and begin "Once upon a time....." Then, the next person showed one of his cards and continued the story, which can be anything! Around and around we went, sometimes making sense, sometimes not. Our favorite line, when it was our turn but we couldn't figure out how to move the story forward was to move it sideways, beginning with "Meanwhile......." Very worth it.