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Games, Reviews, Toys, Games and Crafts · February 5, 2020

Learning Maths with Orchard Toys

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LP and Little Man have been learning maths since even before they started school – counting out their toys or saying how many chicken nuggets they had with their dinner. Maths is an everyday part of life and so important for children to learn about.

Thanks to Orchard Toys, children can learn about maths in a really fun and exciting way – without even realising they’re learning. We were sent three great new maths based games from Orchard Toys and the children couldn’t wait to play.

Orchard Toys Maths Games

LP and Little Man are now eight and six but they have been playing Orchard Toys games and puzzles for years. They’re so familiar to them and they’re always so easy to play too, aimed at very specific ages to suit their level of learning and ability.

First Times Tables is a really fun and fast paced game. The concept is around picking a pancake, working out the multiplication on the pancake and flipping it over to see if you’re right. The children loved flipping the pancakes over and really helped to reinforce their knowledge of 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

Orchard Toys First Times Tables

The game is for two to four players and is aimed at children aged 5-8 which is perfect for our two. Little Man has only just finished learning 2, 5 and 10 times tables and LP is always practicing hers so this is a great game for both those learning to multiply and children wanting to practice and refresh their knowledge.

Orchard Toys First Times Tables
Orchard Toys First Times Tables

Mammoth Maths focuses on addition and subtraction with two different difficulty levels. It’s for up to four players, aged 5-8, and each child can choose whether they want to try the easier or harder maths problems so it’s a great game for children of mixed abilities.

Orchard Toys Mammoth Maths

The aim of the game is for your cave character and their mammoth to move around the board answering maths problems to collect stones to take back to their cave. We found this game finished quite quickly, with the characters only needing to collect four stones, so we just carried on collecting stones for longer.

The children loved this game. It was great fun and they really had to think about some of their answers. I loved that there were two ability levels so it could work well for children just starting to learn maths but could grow with them over time too.

Orchard Toys Mammoth Maths

Lastly, Times Tables Heroes is a game for 2-4 players aged 6-9 and is actually two games in one. Times Tables Bingo gave the children the opportunity to answer times tables to then place a card over numbers on their grid, when they got three numbers in a row they won – but both LP and Little Man are happy playing on to try and fill their whole game board!

Orchard Toys Times Tables Heroes
Orchard Toys Times Tables Heroes

The other game in the set is the Hero City Board Game where you make your way around the board, answering times tables and using your super powers to save the city from disaster. The children loved the imaginative side of this and wanted to solve multiplications as quickly as they could to try and save the city at the same time. The game came with a really handy times tables checker that you could use outside of the game too.

Orchard Toys Times Tables Heroes
Orchard Toys Times Tables Heroes

These maths based games from Orchard Toys would make fantastic gifts for any child – whether they are just starting to learn maths or if they know adding, subtraction and multiplication but just need to practice.

First Times Tables has an RRP of £8.30, Mammoth Maths has an RRP of £12.95 and Times Tables Heroes has an RRP of £10.50 you can see the full Orchard Toys range over on their website.

Orchard Toys Times Tables Heroes

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Comments

  1. Tracy Nixon says

    February 5, 2020 at 7:26 am

    Their Shopping List Game x

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  2. Natalie moore says

    February 5, 2020 at 7:26 am

    Our favourite orchard game in our home was shopping list can’t wait for my baby boy to get old enough for these hope he loves them as much as his sister did

    Reply
  3. Ursula Hunt says

    February 5, 2020 at 9:01 am

    I love many of their games but Shopping list is a favourite with my granddaughter

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  4. Anonymous says

    February 5, 2020 at 11:51 am

    Hard to say, they are all so good. My son absolutely loves spooky steps.

    Reply
  5. Tania Murray says

    February 5, 2020 at 12:49 pm

    Love them all! But current favourite is Comets and Rockets.

    Reply
  6. emma walters says

    February 5, 2020 at 7:02 pm

    we love sleepy sloths

    Reply
  7. Solange says

    February 5, 2020 at 9:59 pm

    The Smelly Wellies Game.

    Reply
  8. Iain maciver says

    February 7, 2020 at 10:53 am

    the shopping list one

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  9. Sally Collingwood says

    February 7, 2020 at 3:00 pm

    Mammoth Maths looks like great fun!

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  10. Helen R says

    February 7, 2020 at 5:28 pm

    We all love shopping list!

    Reply
  11. Tracy Hanley says

    February 7, 2020 at 7:24 pm

    Money match cafe

    Reply
  12. Andrea Fletcher says

    February 7, 2020 at 8:25 pm

    We like Pop to the Shops.

    Reply
  13. Rebecca Sutton says

    February 7, 2020 at 10:54 pm

    my daughter would like the times table one

    Reply
  14. Linda Ford says

    February 8, 2020 at 8:28 am

    We bought llamas in pyjamas for my niece, we had lots of fun playing it with her!

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  15. Kim Neville says

    February 8, 2020 at 6:03 pm

    Shopping list is a favourite of ours in family

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  16. LaurenC says

    February 8, 2020 at 10:14 pm

    Shopping list one by far 🙂

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  17. Hannah Scudder says

    February 9, 2020 at 4:36 pm

    We like the shopping list game, it’s the first game we got and it has been played with lots of times now.

    Reply
  18. Samantha Oliver says

    February 9, 2020 at 8:14 pm

    Wheres’s my cupcake

    Reply
  19. Natalie Burgess says

    February 9, 2020 at 9:38 pm

    Build a Bug xx

    Reply
  20. Susan Smith says

    February 10, 2020 at 9:55 am

    Has to be Sleepy Sloths, its all to do with sounds and its great fun for the little ones to play

    Reply
  21. Magsd says

    February 10, 2020 at 10:03 am

    My wee one loves the shopping list game

    Reply
  22. Martina Pichova says

    February 10, 2020 at 11:27 am

    We already have the Bus game and I love playing it with my daughter.

    Reply
  23. Susan B says

    February 10, 2020 at 12:51 pm

    The Catch and Count Game looks especially good but the entire range is fabulous.

    Reply
  24. Michelle Smith says

    February 10, 2020 at 2:12 pm

    The shopping list game is great fun

    Reply
  25. Katie says

    February 10, 2020 at 5:00 pm

    sleepy sloths

    Reply
  26. fiona waterworth says

    February 10, 2020 at 6:41 pm

    My children love Cheeky Monkeys which is great fun,

    Reply
  27. claire woods says

    February 10, 2020 at 6:51 pm

    Shopping List Game

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  28. Alana Walker says

    February 10, 2020 at 9:07 pm

    We have loads of Orchard Toys games but our favourite is probably the first one we ever got, Dotty Dinosaurs.x

    Reply
  29. Catherine S says

    February 10, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    My girls’ favourite is Incey Wincey Spider

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  30. judy kennedy says

    February 11, 2020 at 12:41 pm

    Smelly wellies

    Reply
  31. Margaret Gallagher says

    February 11, 2020 at 2:14 pm

    Pop to the shop – we love them all

    Reply
  32. Christine Caple says

    February 11, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    We like the Pop to the Shops Board Game

    Reply
  33. ADEINNE TONNER says

    February 12, 2020 at 3:24 pm

    I think it has to be the one dog ten frogs game the children love playing it

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  34. justine meyer says

    February 12, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    We love Th eShopping List as one of our favourites

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  35. Christine Taylor says

    February 12, 2020 at 6:40 pm

    My kids all time favourite is their Shopping List game.

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  36. Mark R says

    February 12, 2020 at 9:57 pm

    Our most recent one, Sleepy Sloths, is the current favourite.

    Reply
  37. Julie Ward says

    February 12, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    The match and spell next steps game

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  38. Clara Roberts says

    February 14, 2020 at 5:33 pm

    Comets and rockets

    Reply
  39. Pam Smith says

    February 15, 2020 at 6:12 pm

    Our grandchildren love Shopping List

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  40. Hannah Rowley says

    February 16, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    The sleepy sloths are great

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  41. Ruth Harwood says

    February 17, 2020 at 9:57 am

    we love the maths games, we hae a few and they’re great for my daughter’s grasp on her maths xx

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  42. lynn neal says

    February 17, 2020 at 1:50 pm

    We love to play the shopping game!

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  43. Michaela Turner says

    February 18, 2020 at 7:32 am

    My youngest son loves shopping list after playing it at his friends house recently

    Reply
  44. Kim M says

    February 18, 2020 at 4:53 pm

    My daughter liked Dinosaur Lotto x

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  45. Jemma Dwyer says

    February 20, 2020 at 4:22 pm

    I love the shopping list!

    Reply
  46. Laura Pritchard says

    February 21, 2020 at 6:45 pm

    We love the Three Little Pigs game!

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  47. Janice Mackin says

    February 22, 2020 at 9:28 am

    Shopping List is my favourite Orchard Toys game.

    Reply
  48. Jade Vaccaro says

    February 23, 2020 at 12:04 am

    My daughter has the knickerbocker glory game and we love it! Racing each other to finish our sundaes is so much fun!

    Reply
  49. Monica Gilbert says

    February 23, 2020 at 10:59 pm

    I find it really hard to choose a favorite Orchard Toys product because they’re all so good, And we have many to choose from. I’ll go with Shopping List just because it was the first one my daughter got. She played it for years and still occasionally takes it out.

    Reply
  50. Dawn says

    February 24, 2020 at 5:47 am

    Timmy ache is one of our favourites me and my sister played it when we were growing up

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  51. Lauren Jewhurst says

    February 24, 2020 at 8:41 am

    LOVE Orchard Toys games! You can’t beat a good lotto game like Shopping List – even my 2yo plays it 🙂

    Reply
  52. Allan Fullarton says

    February 24, 2020 at 5:25 pm

    The Smelly Wellies Game.

    Reply
  53. Claire bayliss says

    February 24, 2020 at 7:30 pm

    We love Orchard Toys, Pop To The Shops is an all-time favourite x

    Reply
  54. donna jones says

    February 25, 2020 at 12:34 pm

    spooky steps is fun

    Reply
  55. Laure says

    February 25, 2020 at 3:29 pm

    We enjoyed the Build a Beetle as kids of most ages can take part.

    Reply
  56. Anthea Holloway says

    February 26, 2020 at 7:53 pm

    We always play Shopping List with our grandchildren and they love it and so do we!

    Reply
  57. Heath84 says

    February 27, 2020 at 6:48 am

    We love the Shopping List game.

    Reply
  58. Liz Slade says

    February 27, 2020 at 9:32 am

    T8mes tables heroes

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  59. Sarah Ann says

    February 27, 2020 at 12:19 pm

    Big fan of Orchard Toys games, Smelly Wellies is great fun!

    Reply
  60. Jo Jones says

    February 27, 2020 at 3:22 pm

    The shopping List is favourite but I think they are all excellent

    Reply
  61. Rich Tyler says

    February 28, 2020 at 11:17 am

    Shopping List

    Reply
  62. Laura Johnson says

    February 28, 2020 at 11:26 am

    Shopping list Game

    Reply
  63. jo liddement says

    February 28, 2020 at 4:07 pm

    I am a huge fan of Orchard Toys and buy them for my granddaughter. The Mammoth Maths looks great fun.

    Reply
  64. laura milton says

    February 28, 2020 at 5:48 pm

    My kids would love Mammoth Maths it looks so much fun!

    Reply
  65. Pat Healy says

    February 28, 2020 at 6:43 pm

    The Bus Stop game has been enjoyed so much by our children.

    Reply
  66. Sheri Darby says

    February 28, 2020 at 9:57 pm

    The Bus Game is our favourite

    Reply
  67. paula cheadle says

    February 28, 2020 at 11:34 pm

    my granddaughter loves Shopping list

    Reply
  68. Hayley F says

    February 29, 2020 at 9:08 pm

    What a Performance Board Game x

    Reply
  69. Adrian Bold says

    March 1, 2020 at 3:32 am

    The Smelly Wellies Game

    Reply
  70. Lindsey Martin says

    March 1, 2020 at 8:10 am

    We have always loved playing little bus lotto, but we’re ready for older games now.

    Reply
  71. Danielle pooley says

    March 1, 2020 at 8:16 am

    There’s a lot to choose from, I’d have to say ‘Shopping List’. My two sons really enjoy it.

    Reply
  72. Jules page says

    March 1, 2020 at 8:18 am

    The times table.

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  73. Simon Knuckey says

    March 1, 2020 at 8:58 am

    Shopping List A Firm Orchard Game Family Favourite

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  74. Denise walton says

    March 1, 2020 at 11:08 am

    The three little pigs game is our favourite

    Reply
  75. Emma England says

    March 1, 2020 at 12:41 pm

    My kids favourite is the shopping list games. We play that one all the time.

    Reply
  76. Jennifer Toal says

    March 1, 2020 at 12:47 pm

    We love the shopping game

    Reply
  77. Sandra Fortune says

    March 1, 2020 at 1:13 pm

    The Mammoth Maths

    Reply
  78. Rebecca Roberts says

    March 1, 2020 at 4:05 pm

    We love them all but I think our favourite is the shopping list game

    Reply
  79. olivia Kirby says

    March 1, 2020 at 4:06 pm

    It has to be the classic Shoppig List game! We love it!

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  80. Vikki Bowker says

    March 1, 2020 at 5:22 pm

    Shopping List <3

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  81. Tammy Neal says

    March 1, 2020 at 5:46 pm

    Shopping list one x

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  82. Fiona jk42 says

    March 1, 2020 at 8:05 pm

    My granddaughter has several Orchard toys games. We love Giraffes in Scarves and Shopping List.

    Reply
  83. laura frost says

    March 1, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    my daughter loves shopping list and pigs in pants

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  84. natalie s says

    March 1, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    I love the bug bingo game. My daughter loves the shopping list one!

    Reply
  85. Tee Simpson says

    March 1, 2020 at 11:57 pm

    Love the Shopping List Game

    Reply

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