eeBoo: About Face, Over 160 Photographed Found Objects Help Create Fun Faces, Endless Possibilities with This Creative Set, Mix and Match for More Fun, for Ages 3 and up

My preschoolers love this activity. Cards are high quality and sturdy. Pictures are clear and colorful. It does help my 3 year olds to have a template of the face shape to guide them with card placement, so I simply traced the box shape onto construction paper and laminated it for durability. There are so many cards in the set, that multiple children can create faces at the same time.

We haven't played any formal games with this set of cards, instead opting to play collaboratively to create faces using the photos.The "cards" are actually very sturdy cardboard. Each double-sided card features glossy, appealing photographs of different, real items - such as beads, acorns, zippers, and buttons - to use as hair, eyes, nose, and mouth.I don't have the cards right in front of me to measure, but would guess that the largest cards (eyes, hair) are about 4.5 inches long.This simple game that sparks creativity and can be enjoyed by a broad range of ages, working alone or with friends. I could even see it being fun in a nursing home/assisted living setting, just as something lighthearted and unusual to play around with. It is a good language tool for the youngest players, too; it gave us a chance to explore words like "fern", "bulb", and "bolt" - words that don't come up all that often in day to day life, but that are nice additions to the small child's vocabulary.The many different cards make it easy to make challenges for the kids, too, such as:-Make a face using things you might find in the forest.-Make a robot face, using all metal parts.-Make a face using only red items.It also gets kids thinking about ways to make their own faces and characters out of things they can find in the yard or around the house. Our youngest enjoyed making faces in play dough using "bits and pieces" they gathered, and we made sock puppets by using tacky glue to create faces on white socks.For preschoolers, this game pairs beautifully with Lois Ehlert's book, Snowballs. Snowballs There is only one, minor thing that I would change about the game:More than half of the mouth pieces, when placed "correctly" are frowning. This seemed to trouble our youngest player, who preferred her faces to look happy, rather than sad or mad. I wonder why the game maker didn't make the mouth pieces rectangular, so that they could fit either way? That would allow the player some control over the "mood" of each character.All in all, a wonderful addition to the family game shelf!

This was purchased for gifts. One already given but out of state and one to be given in July.Don't have any immediate feedback from parents. Both are gifts for 3 year olds. Think they will love it. Was happy to see that it looked just like I thought from the catalog and online. Fun idea to get young kids to think outside the box and their parents to have some new ideas also.

When you first see the box you wonder how it's possible that it can be so popular. There isn't anything about it that screams for your attention. It really isn't flashy at all, and I honestly thought it might be boring. I almost decided not to give it to a friend's 2 year old daughter. When she opened it she immediately took a liking to the pieces though it took a few minutes to get her to understand the concept of the activity, and to understand that each sized piece represents a different part of the face (she tried to use the mouth to make hair, for example - but maybe that just makes her creative!). Later I saw video of her sitting at her desk creating the faces on her own. "Mom, how do I look"? as she placed one of the nose pieces over her own! Incredibly cute, and she really loves to make different faces now. I also like that it introduces her to new words; words that she may not use in normal day to day. A simple, entertaining, well made game for your little one.

Clever and creative

My 3 yr old and I enjoy creating faces with different emotions, materials, colors, etc. Each face piece card is of common everyday items which has opened both our eyes to a creative way of engaging with the world around us. This is a super cute and fun game that keeps my 3 yr old entertained and stimulated and has also passed the "Where'd that piece go...??!?" challenge of a 8 month old's teething curiosity. The cards are thick enough they can withstand a few gnaws and survive with little more than a slightly shredded edge. I guess that may be time and teething terror dependent though.... Whatever the damage extent I know it will only add character to this lovely game that both my kids will be playing with for many years to come!

About Face is our new favorite game! A bunch of combinations for open ended play. Make a face with all nature objects or things that are shiny... whatever. Can play alone or together. I feel like this will be great for creative art/drawing prompts later as skills improve. Teaching them to look at faces and structure in different ways. My children are 4 & 2, but even I love it!

My granddaughter just turned three. She loves doing jigsaw puzzles and they can amuse and challenge her for at least an hour every afternoon. Wanting to provide variety, I had hoped she would also enjoy making different faces on her own. Perhaps when she's older she will want to do that, but at this point she needs an adult to enjoy the faces with her. Without someone else playing with her, commenting on her faces, encouraging her to make new faces, and giving her ideas concerning the kind of face to make, the game isn't fun for her. Still it's something that I'm glad I purchased and as the younger grandchild (now 16 months) matures I can see the two of them using the game together and having a lot of fun.