Cranium Hullabaloo is the surprise-filled, high-energy game that turns bouncing off the walls into bouncing across the room! Players move from one colourful shape to another and use their bodies to perform the many Hullabaloo moves -- touch your nose to a circle, spin to a red, put your elbow on a musical instrument. When Hullabaloo says, "Freeze!" the player on the lucky pad wins! Every few minutes there's a new winner who gets to take a bow, make a victory jump or do a funky monkey dance. Faster than a scavenger hunt, more creative than Simon Says and able to make imaginative leaps past musical chairs, Hullabaloo provides hours of fun for any occasion -- birthday parties, play dates, even a rainy day. Ready to play?
We bought this and play with it every day before school for 3 weeks. Kids concentrate intently on the directions coming from the audio microphone of the game, and follow directions like they are at school. The hop, crawl, spin, and jump to wherever the game tells them - musical instruments, animals, colors, and shapes. We play with our kid, but things get really fun when other kids play as well. They bump into each other racing to get to the right place in the game. The winner is random which makes it fun for whoever wins and nobody gets upset.
There are now two settings so once the kids master the easy setting, the complexity gets cranked up a notch. It turns into more twister type of activities as you have to put your elbow on a monkey, or your left foot on the guitar.
This is such a surprsingly fun game, can't recommend it enough. Learning to listen to direction is maybe the most important thing they will learn, but the fact that they will do learn it while laughing is really different.
I agree this is a great game for the preschool age. It gets them up and moving around, so it is nice for an inside winter game! My children received it as a gift back when they were in kindergarten and the younger was in preschool. It wasn't long before my younger son had the dvd memorized and he knew how to be the winner each time we played! I guess that could be a positive too...!
My 3 boys and I love this game, and so do their older cousins. It's fun, because it gets them moving around, and acting a bit silly. It teaches them to follow directions (and of course identify shapes, colors and objects). Anyone can be a winner. It's a nice change of pace from traditional board games.
