24 Mar hangman
HANGMAN
HANGMAN
Tonina Llull
This is an excellent game to add to your therapeutic tool box. Target fine motor, ocular motor, and visual perceptual skills easily and increase socialization/ability to cope with fun competition, as well as build reading and spelling skills.
Meets Expectations
Durability
Versatility
Engagement
The Essentials
The value and fun of the hangman game has not been lost with these board games’ fun twist on the game. Making it a competition to solve the mystery word first, elevates the engagement, competition, and level of skill building. The games displayed here provide each player a board, letter pieces, and a way to track how to close to “hanging” their opponent they are.
In this version of the game, players race to guess their opponent’s words before getting hung doing so. It is actually very reminiscent of playing battleship. The game version I use the most, is the Hangman Game by Parker Brothers, it is also featured on the above slider — it is now considered a “classic”. The Word Hangman game version, also featured in this review, uses similar boards, letter tiles, and convenient ways of displaying the progress of each player.
This game is fun for children and adults and gets high marks for fun, durability, and for building manipulation and dexterity, visual and auditory attention, ocular motor and visual perceptual skills, graded use of force as well as spelling, reading, memory, and socialization.
Fun Factor
Determination to solve the word puzzle before their opponent, easily engages children, especially for short-interval play times. Manipulating the game pieces keep the game active and moving forward. Kid consultants report enjoying playing with friends, their siblings, and rotational play with their parents. Parents report they enjoy using it to practice spelling and vocabulary words with their children during play.
Parents, therapists, and kid consultants, give this game high marks for fun, interaction, and repeat playing. It is an excellent tool for speech and occupational therapy sessions, and a great supplemental tool to augment reading, spelling, and grammar curriculum.
Set-Up and Clean-Up
Set-up, clean-up, and storage of this game is convenient. The pieces are durable, easy to clean, and manipulate.
The manipulation of the board and game pieces during set-up, game play, and clean-up is excellent for building fine motor and eye skills.
The IF-THEN’S and the BUT’S
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD – Small parts. Not for children under 3 years or children who do not discriminate edibles vs non-edible or those who seek to chew, bite, and suck on hard items.
HOW TO AUGMENT THE USE OF THIS PRODUCT
Depending on the toy or game, as therapists and educators, it is typical that we vary the way we use the game and its components to facilitate underlying skills that may be required to play the game for children who are differently abled. We can increase general learning and target specific learning areas, further enhance creativity and imagination, foster problem solving and memory, target additional physical skills (gross and fine motor) social skills, communication; and foster sensory processing and modulation.
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