Orchard Toys Shopping List Fun Learning Game

INTRODUCTION As a parent of young children, you quickly become familiar with the insidious and almost viral form of children’s advertising known as the “character tie-in”. Simply put, you take a kid’s TV character or show – think Peppa Pig, Bob the Builder or In the Night Garden – slap their animated mug on any piece of tat you care to produce, bombard the impressionable little souls with incessant advertising and then rely on pester power to manipulate exhausted parents at the end of their tether into buying said junk just to keep his or her highness quiet for a day or two. Fortunately, every ... more

Shopping List I think I must have, over the years, either bought or played almost every game from Orchard Toys. This was one of the first ones I bought, and I like it because it's a memory game, and also because it relates to something most children understand…shopping. **What do I get?** As with any of the Orchard Toys games, the instructions are written on the base of the box, so no stray bits of paper inside the box just ready to be lost or torn. There are 4 "shopping trolleys" which are actually 4 sturdy thick water proof cards with a picture of a shopping trolley on each. Each shopping ... more

Shopping List is a lovely simple game from Orchard Toys which is both enjoyable and educational at the same time! Most little children are also used to being wheeled around sainsburys or Tesco with Mum or Dad, so this game can relate to very real experiences for them! Shopping List arrives as quite a small box which contains four cards with pictures of shopping trolleys on them, four cards containing shopping lists and thirty two items to put in the trolleys. The way you play the game is that each player (up to four) has a shopping trolley and a shopping list, and the aim is to be the first ... more

I found this game last year in Boots while shopping for christmas presents. We have a lot of younger children, all under 5, to buy for, including our son, so I always try to make the most of the 3 for 2 offers in Boots, especially as they stock Early Learning toys. This way I know I've bought quality gifts for bargain prices and collected advantage points. Perfect! It was whilst trying to find the third 'free' toy that I spotted this game, very easy to spot actually with it's bright yellow box and colourful pictures of a variety of groceries and two smiling people. (Obviously not designed on ... more

Before we went away on holiday I bought a few games and small toys suitable for travelling and playing with on rainy days. One of these was a game manufactured by Orchard Toys, called Shopping List. It proved an instant hit and was such a simple idea that I thought I’d share it with you! Shopping List is a game for 2 – 4 players ideally aged between 3 and 7 years. The object of the game is to be the first one to fill up your ‘shopping trolley’. Each player takes a shopping trolley board and another card with a list of shopping on it. Then the 32 tiles with the pictures of the food on them are ... more