Once upon a time in a dark forest. Game for the whole family

One day in a dark, dark forest this happened... but I don’t know what exactly!
And all because in this fairytale game everyone decides for themselves what exactly will happen in their dark forest. Because this is a storytelling game, tell a story. You can play together (storyteller-listener/co-author) or in a group. The age of players is not limited, an interesting puzzle format for compiling game cards. The cards are really for children; it will be interesting and understandable for ages 3 to 8 years.
The rules are simple: mix the cards, take them out without looking, and continue the story. The main weapon is only your imagination :)
Well, I want to add that this is quite psychological game which will allow you to better understand the mood and character of the child. What about the child - yourself! It will help you learn to better find a common language and, in principle, a reason to do something together, to compose an unforgettable story, which you can then remember with a smile before going to bed.
The cards are made of good thick cardboard, by the way) the quality is up to par)

To be honest, lately I’ve been feeling a little tired from my traditional reviews, for which I’ve been preparing for a whole week. Play 4-5 games, describe the rules, think about the pros and cons of the game, take pictures of the components. And then all over again, and again, and again =) And now I had a good opportunity to just talk about the games that got into my collection at the beginning of summer. These games were given to me by the author himself - Alexander Volkov . The acquaintance was interesting to me, because, as it turned out, Alexander invented and published his games entirely himself. Not every author board games may take the risk of releasing his project independently. After presenting the games, Alexander asked me to tell me about my impressions - what if something in the games needs to be corrected, or something needs to be thrown away. Or maybe everything is not as it should be - any opinion is important to the author. It took me a long time to get acquainted with these games, but in the fall the process finally began. Of course, there was no point in expecting a miracle from the push-and-pull, but still I was interested to know what an author who made games according to his own template, and not according to a modern, fashionable one, could do.

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"Once Upon a Time in a Dark Forest" - magic game with good ghosts for children and adults!

My Timofey is just under two and a half years old, and he is very picky about everything, especially about toys and books, so I was absolutely not sure whether he would like this game or not. But he was simply delighted, the whole evening we spent the whole evening on the floor, collecting stories this way and that. They barely put Timofey to bed, but in the morning, as soon as he woke up, he immediately demanded that they immediately give him “U-oo-oo” again, as he called them.

The game is something like a long horizontal puzzle of 20 cards. The cards are cardboard, very thick, with the cutest drawings on both sides. Each card depicts a scene, connecting them with each other, we get a story.

This is something like an interactive book that you can compose yourself and re-compose many, many times. You can play it alone or with family and friends.

I really liked the drawings, they are so cute and funny, and the colors are gentle and pleasant.

And I am also very pleased with unusual heroes - good ghosts! It's so difficult to find a developing interactive game for children, so that the heroes in it would not be banal bunnies, foxes, bunnies. No, Koloboks and Ryaba Hens, this is, of course, wonderful, but only at the initial stage, we all start with them, but then our imagination and fantasy always begin to demand more.

Advantages:

Bright beautiful pictures, double-sided cards, a strong storage box, unusual heroes of the story - kind and sweet ghosts.

Once upon a time in a dark forest. Game for the whole family

This is not the first game in our house to develop imagination.
Last year we received a book that asked us to come up with a fairy tale on our own. I found it quite exciting; I have loved inventing different stories since childhood. And it was surprising to me that my daughter found the task difficult. It seems that we often read fairy tales, and they contain more than enough magic and various miracles, and fairies come to visit us, and the New Year's Gnome comes in winter, and the book lover - the gnome Gosha has been friends with Nastya for the second year now, but as it happens, Despite all the fairy tale surrounding the child, it turned out to be difficult for her to give free rein to her imagination. Now we have several sets of games with cards, with their help Nastya composes stories based on pictures. Previously, it was more like a statement of facts, but now the stories are more complex, somewhere she thinks up something, and is slowly learning to fantasize.

The quality of this game is simply excellent. The cards are not just on thick cardboard, but on very thick cardboard, the game can be passed on by inheritance, time is not a problem for it with such quality. The packaging is also done well, a tight, convenient box.

The rules of the game are written on the lid of the box, but you can play according to your own rules. You can make either a boy or a girl the main character, or you can alternate. The cards are double-sided, so events can develop differently each time.

Summer is coming, vacations, the sea, dachas, this game is convenient to take with you, it’s interesting and useful to play!

The technique of storytelling - “telling stories” - is a popular tool for developing speech and imagination all over the world. It is used both in school programs with a creative bias, and in classes with children younger age. After all, the freer consciousness is from “adult” stereotypes, the more open it is to a vibrant creative process.

How to play?

You can play together (storyteller-listener/co-author) or in a group. The age of players is not limited, but the game will especially appeal to children from 3 to 8 years old. The interesting format of the puzzles will allow you to return to the game many times, giving endless scope for imagination.

Distribute cards to all participants. Let someone lay out the first puzzle and begin the story, and the rest will continue, adding new “frames” to the series and connecting their fragments of the story with the previous ones.

Pull cards at random and make up a story without preparation. This is more difficult: ready to test your resourcefulness?

Do you like to come up with ideas with the whole picture in front of your eyes? Lay out all the puzzles in random order, and as soon as the “video sequence” is ready, start imagining!

Choose a presenter who will lay out puzzles at his own discretion, and storytellers who will only voice what they see. Will you be able to guess the presenter's intention?

Don't like to improvise? Arrange the cards however you want, make up a story, and then tell or read it to your audience!

Who is this book for?

This game is for the whole family! It can be used by both parents for individual work with a child, and teachers for group work with children.