Goliath Games Pop The Pig: Even Bigger and Better Kids Games | For 2-6 players | Ages 4+

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Pop the Pig provides hours of fun and is completely kid powered (no batteries needed). For added convenience, all pieces can be stored inside the pig. An international preschool classic, Pop the Pig is a game that doesn’t need a second mention. It’s unique, appealing and intriguing to the kids, and blends in the right amounts of fun and thrill. Goliath Games was established in 1980, and remains one of the few family-owned and run businesses in the world of toys and games. Create a simple obstacle course using what you have at home (e.g. crawl under chairs, hop on mats, walk heel-to-toe on a line drawn in chalk or masking tape etc.) and have your child do the obstacle course each time they want to collect a burger to feed to the pig.

Pop the Pig ® - Kids spin the spinner, pop a hamburger into the pig’s mouth and push down on his head. The more they pump, the more his belly grows until . . . pop! On the bottom of each hamburger, you will find a number from 1 to 4. Insert the hamburger all the way into the pig's mouth.

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Pop the Pig is a simple, fun game that is excellent for learning colours and numbers. Learn how you can use Pop the Pig to help develop your child’s gross motor, fine motor, social, emotional and cognitive skills. Pop the pig is developed keeping in mind the minds of little children. This is why it’s not only fascinating and satisfying but also the rules are extremely easy to understand. Dice Play

You feed the hamburger to the pig and push down on his head 3 times making his belly grow with each push! Pressing down on the pig’s head is great for building your child’s hand strength. Encourage your child to use just one hand to press down on the pig’s head if they are strong enough. When a hamburger color is assigned by the die or decided by the player, he or she flips one of them lying face down to see the number. The number on the hamburger indicates how many times the pig has to chew that burger (or the player has to make the pig chew). One of the four colors appears, which means the player will feed that colored hamburger to the pig.Pop the Pig may not seem like a very physically active game but it is easy enough to adapt to target some of those gross motor goals. For casual fun among several kids, you should try out the Fruit Salad and Don’t Wake Daddy game. To foster some learning while playing, there are few games as good as Memory.

Ask your child to name the number on the burger and model putting up the right number of fingers to match the number. Encourage your child to count as they press down on the pig’s head the correct number of times. An Instruction Manual also comes along. One that you might not need as we are already here helping you out. The hamburger will slide down into its tummy, but what’s important is the air that will be pumped in. The greater the number you get on your burger, the more you inflate the tummy of the pig, and the closer you reach to the end of the round. Popping The Pig Pop the Pig ® is an international preschool classic that is adored by millions of children – it was the top-selling preschool game in 2016 and 2017 according to retailer sales data collected by NPD! Kids spin the spinner, pop a hamburger into the pig’s mouth and push down on his head. The more they pump, the more his belly grows until . . . pop!For instance, if the pig is already inflated enough, every player will be at an edge and will hope to get lower-numbered hamburgers so that they aren’t the ones that end up popping the pig. In such a situation, if a player gets a skip, the player most likely jumped the hoop and one of the next two players is likely to lose the round. Whether a player wins or loses when he or she pops the pig depends on local rules. While pop the pig instructions by the original creator of the game, Goliath Games, says the player to pop the pig loses, several American versions say otherwise.