Review of Cookin’ Cookies Lunch Box Game

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Buy it: Cookin’ Cookies Lunch Box Game

My daughter Ally, 4, loves to “help” me cook. And I always make a point of showing her how to follow a recipe and how you need all of the ingredients listed to make the finished product.

And one of Ally’s favorite games teaches the same lesson. Cookin’ Cookies Lunch Box Game is based on the idea of following a recipe and collecting ingredients, and Ally loves it.

Each player picks a recipe card at the beginning of the game to find out which kind of cookies they will be making. The ingredient cards are placed face down in the middle. Each player has a spoon with a suction cup attached, which the players use to grab and pick up the ingredient cards after everyone says “Ready, set, bake!” This is repeated until one player has collected all of their ingredients and wins the game. 

There are also Rotten Egg Cards. In the rules, if a player gets a Rotten Egg Card they put all their cards back and start over. But since Ally’s 4 and doesn’t like to lose, we’ve used the Rotten Eggs to mean that you just don’t get a card for that turn. And sometimes we don’t play with the Rotten Eggs at all.

Cookin’ Cookies, for ages 4 and up, is such a sweet, simple and inexpensive game. It teaches children how to follow a recipe but really, Ally just loves slapping her suction-cup spoon down on the cards and saying “Ready, set, bake!”