Orchard Toys Shopping List - Educational Memory Game - Age 3-7 - Perfect For Home Learning

Shopping List Memory Gameis a classic game by Orchard Toys which offers a slight twist to the more traditional memory games. The game play includes each player being given a shopping list card and a cart game card. The items contained on each of the shopping lists is different, so players are not competing to find the same items. The items on each players shopping list corresponds to a items tile. The item tile depicts a matching picture of the item on the shopping list, item tiles are placed faced down so a player must remember its location in order to retrieve it during their turn. Once an item tile from the shopping list is found, the player places the tile on his/her cart. This process continues until the player has found all the item tiles needed to complete their shopping list and wins the game. Because players are not turning over multiple tiles during their turn, a player must learn to focus his/her attention on remembering only those items which are on their list.Learning to focus ones attention on only the information needed, while being able to discard irrelevant information is an important skill for learners of all ages and abilities.Learning Insights:The account below contains an account of some of the insights I gained from some my experiences playing Shopping List with my grandson. While I believe the narrative provides some worthwhile observations, it is a rather long account and so I have decided to separated from my review of the product.Our 3.5 year old grandson is not the most competitive little guys, and many of his favorite "games" focus on a corporative goal, such as Peaceable Kingdom Snug as a Bug in a Rug Award Winning Preschool Skills Builder Game. However he does enjoy playing Shopping List Memory Game and delights in "helping" everyone win. He will even remind me or his G-Pop which items we still need to gather and where the card is; often by saying "remember you need the ....." Then pointing to the card's location. Regardless of our grandson's preference for cooperative game play over games a more competitive focus, Shopping List is one of his all time favorite games to play.Excerpt from Owen's Learning Journal:Today, Owen and I played "Shopping List" with 3 players, rather than just the two of us. The inclusion of an additional player added a whole new dimension to the memory aspect of the game play that I am quite embarrassed to admit was one which I hadn't quite anticipated would have such a impact on Owen's level of engagement and determination.Rather than being able to quickly locate a shopping item which he needed for his list, that another player revealed during their turn; Owen sometimes had to wait until I had completed my turn, or his G-Pop had completed his turn, before being able to locate the coveted item he needed.This meant Owen needed to remember the location of the card longer than when just the two of us played and he had to ignore any irrelevant items which may have come in between. This is no easy task for a child of three and a half and the increased complexity was evident in Owen's level of attentiveness.Owen still displayed his usual eagerness to help everyone find their items (which I believe is good trait), and was he no more focused on "winning" the game than he had been when just he and I played. But he was definitely more focused on remembering a cards location in respect to the other cards. Also, he was less apt to turn over the same card repeatedly. Moreover, I noticed that Owen took more time in choosing a card, and seemed to be trying harder to remember both the location of the tile and which tiles had yet to be selected.-------I chose to include the except not because I found Owen's behavior intriguing and worthy of some further exploration (which was the reason for writing down my observations in his learning journal), but rather because I felt it was an important realization to share with other who purchase Shopping List by Orchard Toys.In conclusion, I would strongly encourage those playing Shopping List with a young child to consider adding an additional player or two. Especially if the young child is finding the game play too easy. It is a strategy I plan on exploring further with some of our grandson's similar games.Helping a young child learn to exercise an increased level control over their non-cognitive skills such as task persistence, determination, and focused attention is just as important as their acquisition of academic readiness skills -to include those traditionally associated with reading, math and science. I discovered that by adding an additional player, I could encourage the growth in both skills sets. Owen was still expanding both his vocabulary with words like wizard and eggplant and learning to recognize and read common nouns such as milk, bread, and eggs -academic skills- while also gaining control over his newly forming attention skills -non-cognitive skills- and that was a feat worth sharing...Shopping List Memory Gameis a solid educational game and definitely a great investment of both your time and resources.If you would like to learn more about the impact of non-cognitive skills I highly recommend the book by Paul Tough Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why

Amazing games. This company has the most amazing games for kids. If you want your kids to be more excited to play board games than watch TV, this is the way to do it. The games are simple in design, and they teach memory, math, matching, trading, collecting...and many other skills.My 4 - 1/2 year old loves this Shopping List game. She loved the Ladybirds game before this, and the Bus Stop game too. Even my 2 year old is interested in the collecting and playing of this game, while being directed by his older sister. You can't go wrong with these games. I never thought that we would have "games nights" (because of video games and tv), but since we've found these games we regularly play them a few times per week. The attention span is only about 45 min to 1hr but that's quite incredible if you think about it.I will be buying more in the future.The shopping carts and pieces are made of thick board and very durable. All the pictures are easy to match and understand. Some of the words are very "English", and that also opens up explanations on different descriptions in the world. Great for kids to realize.

Quality: game pieces are sturdy and great quality. I like how they are thick and easy to pick up without being too chunky.Game Play: got this for my 3 year old niece and she loves it. The game is a perfect duration for her attention span. I did tweak the rules slightly when less than 4 people are playing - we still put all the tokens in the middle but if you draw a piece that is not on anyone's board we put it to the side rather then putting it back in the pile as the instructions say to do. Helps to keep the game from taking forever since the pile of tokens gets smaller each turn doing this.The game is clearly British based upon some of the items/tokens - i.e. one of the items is a jar of curry. We just say it is peanut butter :)Highly recommend this game.

This is a cute little game that both of my girls age 4 and 6 enjoy. It’s definitely more geared towards younger children but they still have fun trying to collect all of the items on their shopping list. It’s nice too that this game has add-ons you can purchase separately. It’s super easy to play, the game pieces are well made and sturdy.

Contains four shopping carts, four shopping lists, and 32 item cards.The item cards depict: oranges, peppers, loaf of bread, bacon (different cut), apple juice, pasta, washing powder (laundry detergent), socks, strawberries, aubergines (eggplant), cheese (holey so most likely Swiss), frozen pizza, stir-fry sauce, water, toilet paper, teddy (stuffed toy), bananas, tomatoes, milk, chicken, baked beans, sweets (candy?), toothpaste, music CD, apples, carrots, eggs, soup, tinned tuna (canned tuna), cereal, bubble bath, and magazine.Pros: Contains a lot of items. Game is simple to understand and play. I can use the tiles for a lot of educational purposes that have nothing to do with the game.Cons: The names of some items are different in the USA from the UK. I thought the selection of items was a tad odd. No common staples like butter, yogurt, or peanut butter etc.Overall, I really wanted all those wonderful item tiles to use for lots of other purposes including separating by food group, feeding the monster dexterity game, meal planning, learning words for common objects, etc. Just so much you can teach with these tiles. We can also play the original game too but its not why I bought it.NOTE: A new updated version was released. My review pertains the version before 2015.