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a) figure out how to make the "messy and dangerous" doable. b) I had some success by playing boardgames (even Carcasone) at this age, with some rules-simplific

a) figure out how to make the "messy and dangerous" doable. b) I had some success by playing boardgames (even Carcasone) at this age, with some rules-simplifications c) sometimes we played games on my phone, Monument Valley, I love Hue, Chuchel ... d) Buying and launching a model rocket was a success, if he'd enjoy watching from the distance and then trying to find the rocket again :-) e) in simmilar fashion, building a kite (or buying ... tbh I usually do both, because building is fun, but the store-bought actually works :P ) ... but you need good wind-conditions to fly it f) museums are surprisingly good these days, especially modern technical museums can often entertain both 3yo and 30+yo

hcrisp 7y ago
+1 Monument Valley. Also Love You to Bits, and (now defunct) Tiny Thief. We are playing Gris now. For board/traditional games, we like Robot Turtles (easier version of Robo Rally, which you can upgrade to when they are older), Yahtzee, Backgammon, Stun. Yeah, for over 3, but the younger ones like to watch. And no one mentioned Snap Circuits Jr.!
- a-saleh 7y ago
  Snap Circuits Jr. look more 5+? My cousin has that, and likes it, but he is well into school. I found backgamon to be fairly complicated and never really got my kid to play anything abstract, closest I got was with Hive, but that quickly devolved into stacking cute little bugs on hexagons into stacks (not that I am complaining) It either needs to be fast, reflex games like Hali Gali, Dobble, e.t.c. work well, or with interesting enough theme, i.e. she actually likes to attempt to build a giant sprawl in Carcasone :D But I will definitely check out robot turtles :)