My little girl received a DS for her 5th birthday. What are some game suggestions for her? She can not read yet and the games are not labeled with age recommendations on them. Thank you for any help.
I have a five year old and read a lot of reviews on amazon to come up with these games my daughter loves: Lovely Lisa, the Smart Girls series, Build a Bear, Littlest pet shop ( but this one will require some help from s grown-up, but she loves the games). We have cooking mama but it frustrates her. Good luck!
I would recommend looking for games with the EC rating (early childhood) like Ni Hao, Kai-Lan.
Are you doing the DS or the DSi
my 5 year old has the DS and he plays several Game Boy Advanced games. Franklin the turtle and Highschool musical are very good.
Game boy advanced games are super cheap at toys r us too :)
DSi Will not play GB Advanced games :(
My little neighbor girl was playing Style Savvy? this weekend.
There are SOOOO many games out there for the DS! When we got ours for our 5 year old girl, I just went onto www.gamestop.com and looked thru all the games they have. They have them all in different categories. That might be the easiest thing you can do!
mario kart is my sons favorite game. There are easier games like all of the Dora's if she is still into Dora. My son also likes the new super mario brothers. They are all a tad hard in the very beginning but they will be good at them in no time at all.
There are some games labled early childhood which are great!
There is a carnival game that it has reading of instructions but really the games themselves are easy to figure out.
Wonder pets game, Diego and Super Mario Brothers game are both great too.
My son has fine motor skill deficit: test at a 4 year old level, he's 7, but he loves all these games and finds them rather easy to use.
If she's a nurturer by nature :-) there are a bunch of *imagine* series games out there that my daughter LOVED when she got her DS at 6. You can take care of bunnies or horses or babies. Or she can be a fashion designer, own your own store or have a sleepover.
Cooking mama is GREAT and there is no reading - you have to mix cake batter and flip burgers and match ingredients together (ie - what would make a pizza?).
You can also find out what language she will take once she gets to 1st grade and they have beginner series of that language that uses pictures more than words to match with the foreign languae word - ie picture of a horse and then the spanish word for horse.
I would also encourage you to go ahead and get another stylus. Each time my daughter lost hers she had to "work" to earn $$$ to buy it - she only lost 2 and is now MUCH more responsible about keeping track of it. But this way you have it on hand.... just in case YOU need her to play on the DS lol!!!!
