Birdcage Press {a review}

I’m all for adding games to supplement and enrich our homeschool curriculum. I like to make our learning fun and memorable, and games are a great way to do just that. I was happy to have the opportunity to review Wild Cards: Baby Animals Around the World from Birdcage Press because I knew my girls would enjoy them and they would fit in nicely with our Galloping the Globe curriculum. Birdcage Press offers award-winning games with an “educational twist” in the subjects areas of art, wildlife and nature, air and space, and history.

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The Wild Cards: Baby Animals Around the World is for ages 6 and up and can be purchased through the vendor’s website for $10.95. The card/book set contains 36 playing cards and a 28 page mini book. The cards are roughly 4.5″ x 2.5″ in size, are very durable, and contain amazing photographs and facts about baby animals from five continents and the polar regions. For each of the continents and the polar regions, there are six cards showcasing three animals from that area (there are two of each card). Each card has the name and picture of the animal, the continent where the animal lives, as well as some fun facts about that animal. The accompanying mini book goes into more detail about each animal on the card. I only wish the mini book was just as durable and hefty as the cards.

Some of the animals you will learn about are:

Giant Pandas (Asia)
Elephants (Africa)
Squirrel Monkeys (South America)
White-tailed Deer (North America)
Koalas (Australia)
Polar Bears (Polar Regions)

The suggested games to play with these cards are Silly Sloth (played like Old Maid), Animal Memory, and Go Fish for Baby Animals. My two girls (ages 4 and 6) enjoyed playing several games of Animal Memory, as well as Go Fish for Baby Animals.

Besides playing the games, my girls loved just looking through the cards and having me read about each of the animals from the book. We recently started using Galloping the Globe and the first part of that curriculum teaches about maps and the continents, so as we were learning the continents, we made a large earth out of yarn on the family room floor. We then placed the continents on the earth (I printed out blank continent outlines for this) and then placed the baby animal cards on the appropriate continents.

The Wild Cards: Baby Animals Around the World were a welcome addition to our homeschool. They are high-quality, durable, educational, fun, and affordable. We will continue using these cards as we gallop our way across the globe. We will also check out their other games and see what else we might be able to add to our curriculum in the future.

Some of the other games reviewed by the crew were: Art Ditto, Art Close Up: Museum of Modern Art, Go Fish for Ancient Egypt, Wild Cards: Backyard Birds, and Go Fish for Impressionist Artists.

See these reviews by clicking the graphic below.

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Birdcage Press {a review}

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