The game can be used to get children interested in cooking by talking about the different ingredients and utensils, as well as foods from around the world.

I think this game is brilliant for children who are starting to learn how the phonetic alphabet can make up the sounds in words they use every day. Whether your child likes dinosaurs or vehicles, fairy tales, or farm life, Orchard Toys has an engaging learning toy to match. In the more challenging version of the game, players use the blank side of their boards and use the letter cards to build the word of the picture shown.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. After doing this a few times, he decided he had the confidence to flip the board over and attempt to spell the word himself.

With 2 ways to play, this game encourages letter recognition, phonetic word building and matching of pictures and words and can be played as a single player activity or multi player game. Aimed at children aged 5 and over, the game helps to develop more advanced reading and spelling skills using both sounds and blends. Children will enjoy looking and identifying what is in the colourful pictures and building the words as they progress! As children get more familar with the letter sounds they will progress to reading the words out loud.

In this simple board game, players must travel around the board collecting and assembling their 3D wood, straw and brick houses.

With friendly illustrations and simple gameplay that progresses as children learn, it's no surprise that Match and Spell is our bestselling language and literacy game! Bug Hunters also comes with a fact file to learn more about the big bugs being built, and a checklist showing all the bugs featured in the game, which can be hidden around the house to make a fun hide and seek game. Contents:25 shaped pizza slice cards4 pizza boards1 double spinner1 Head Chef board1 instruction leafletNot suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts.It’s simple, yet extremely effective design is likely to build a child’s confidence quickly and encourage them to try sounding out and spelling words they see in their reading books. TWO WAYS TO PLAY: With two ways to play this game is designed for both guided and independent word building. With friendly illustrations and simple gameplay that progresses as children learn, it’s no surprise that Match and Spell is our bestselling language and literacy game! The second game is for slightly older children, who can use the blank side of the word board, using the letter cards to spell out the word shown in the picture.