Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
- Claude Monet
Dad Suggests was created to share with others the many different things that we have loved sharing with our own children.
Our hope is that - by reading or visiting our children’s bookstore - you will find something special to enjoy with your own family.
- Ryan
All tagged HABA
Our Game of the Month for October 2022 is HABA’s new release Flotsam Float! Flotsam Float is a stacking game for ages 6+ with a unique twist - you have to move the entire balancing stack from place to place on every turn!
This month we’re going to share a copy of Animal Upon Animal Christmas with one of you! It’s a festive stacking game from HABA in a beautiful collector’s tin, and I hope it makes for a festive family game night for one of you.
Inspector Mouse: The Great Escape from HABA is our Game of the Month for November. It’s a great memory test for the whole family with creative design any many ways to play both cooperatively and competitively.
Our Game of the Month for September is HABA’s newest addition to their My Very First Games series - Animal Upon Animal Junior. It’s a spectacular stacking game for toddlers with both competitive and cooperative ways to play.
Our game of the month for May is the amazing Rhino Hero Junior from HABA. This junior version of the immensely popular Rhino Hero is a dexterity game designed for toddlers, and is the latest entry in HABA’s My Very First Game Series.
This month we’re going to share a copy of Color It! with one lucky reader. This board game from HABA is all about coloring, and it’s a great concept and a relaxing zen-like experience.
Discover the best board games for 5-year-olds. Find your new favorite game for family game night by exploring our top 10 list of our personal favorite family board games for age 5. The games on this list will be beloved for many years to come.
Discover the best board games for 4-year-olds on family game night. Our series of the best board games for kids of all ages continues with this list of the top 10 board games for 4-year-olds.
If you’re looking for board games to help your preschooler practice their colors - look no further than these family favorites. Try gameschooling with your kids to learn those colors together.
The Unicorn Glitterluck series of board games from HABA contains the very best board games for young unicorn lovers. Featuring beautiful components, different skill levels, and several game styles - they’re also fantastic additions to your family game night rotation.
These are the very best board games for 3-year-olds. Discover the best games to play with your toddler during family game night from top publishers like HABA and Peaceable Kingdom. Learn new skills, work together, and have fun.
HABA’s Valley of the Vikings is the Children’s Board Game of the Year for 2019. The annual Viking bowling competition is taking place, and you want to be the one with the most gold coins when all is said and done. HABA has done it again and has made the best board game of the year for family game night with the little ones.
These are the best family board games for celebrating summertime. Play these family games as you enjoy a classic-themed summer full of lemonade, camping under the stars, catching fireflies, and sitting by the pool.
These are the best cooperative board games for 3-year-olds. Our 3-year-old is very opinionated about the games she loves and grabs from the shelf to play with us. Not only is it an immense pleasure to see her excited about choosing the games we play, but the rest of us legitimately have fun with them too.
What we really love collecting now are games that introduce strategy and decision making in a bite-size, family-friendly format. Very recently we’ve added a new board game to our collection that fits this description perfectly. Its name is Honga.
First Orchard by HABA is perhaps the very best board game to be your child’s first board game. This cooperative game teaches basic skills like taking turns and rolling the die - and the wooden game pieces are high-quality enough to be toys by themselves.
These are the best cooperative board games for 5-year-olds. We think it’s helpful to be able to share our strategies and logic with the little ones. And playing cooperatively with a common mission is a great way to introduce children to the whole point of playing board games - to have fun.
