Green Options » cooperative games http://greenoptions.com/tag/cooperative-games Posts tagged 'cooperative games' Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:54:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en A Cooperative Game for Young Children: Snail’s Pace Race http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/08/16/a-cooperative-game-for-young-children-snails-pace-race/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/08/16/a-cooperative-game-for-young-children-snails-pace-race/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:54:00 +0000 Jennifer Lance http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/08/16/a-cooperative-game-for-young-children-snails-pace-race/
Snail’s Pace Racewas first recommended to me by a fellow preschool teacher. This cooperative game allows very young children to work together moving snails across the board. Two colored die are rolled, and depending on the color showing, the appropriate snail is moved. Snail’s Pace Raceteaches turn taking and color identification, and it is fun! The large wooden pieces are easy for little hands, and only the die pose choking hazards. Snail’s Pace Raceis a game my six-year-old and three-year-old can play together without adult assistance. For a very thorough review of Snail’s Pace Race, visit Thingamababy.
Snail’s Pace Raceis made by Ravensburger, a company I have always liked.

]]> http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/08/16/a-cooperative-game-for-young-children-snails-pace-race/feed/ Cooperative Games: Yoga Garden Game http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/07/20/cooperative-games-yoga-garden-game/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/07/20/cooperative-games-yoga-garden-game/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:37:00 +0000 Jennifer Lance http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/07/20/cooperative-games-yoga-garden-game/
Our family’s first adventure into cooperative games was the Yoga Garden Game. My daughter and I started playing this game when she was three years old, as she had shown an interest in yoga. In the Yoga Garden Game, players work together to plant the flowers before nighttime falls. Players take turns rolling the dice to move a bumble bee around the circular game board. Depending on where you land, you get to plant a flower, put a nighttime piece on the board, do a yoga pose, or make up your own asana. The Yoga Garden Gameoffers a unique way for children to learn yoga in a cooperative game.

Eco Dad jokes that cooperative games are games where nobody wins, but this is not true. In cooperative games, everyone wins by working together. There is enough competition in our society, that a little cooperation can go a long way to teaching the values I want my children and students to learn.

The Yoga Garden Game was created by Yoga Kids. Z Recs recently featured a post called “Kids Musical Yoga and the Entrepreneurial Spirit“, which you may want to visit for more information on yoga for children.

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