Access to all digital games and activities that are added to our collection in the future. (Multiple activities will be added each month) 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.

With each round, a point is given to the winning player. A set number of rounds is decided and the player with the maximum score towards the end wins the game. Resetting The Game An Instruction Manual also comes along. One that you might not need as we are already here helping you out.

A classic fun game for preschool kids, Pop the Pig the game is a good way of keeping the kids busy. It’s about kids having fun while the pig gorges on delicious hamburgers. Meanwhile, they also learn the lesson that feeding/eating too much junk doesn’t have pretty outcomes! 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

For instance, if a player gets the red color on the die, that player will flip a red hamburger to see the number. Let’s say it is numbered 3, then the player will place the burger deep inside the pig’s mouth and with both hands, press the head of the pig downwards. 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! 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!Ever since its launch, Pop the Pig is still exclusively sold by its original creator Goliath. A typical game kit contains the following: You can also focus on developing your child’s winning and losing skills. Often when children become fixated on winning, they can have difficulty regulating their emotions if they lose. It is often helpful to role model good winning and losing behaviour. Also emphasize at the start of the game that it is more important to have fun and play fairly than to win. Similarly, before starting the game, brainstorm friendly things to say to one when someone wins (e.g. “You played really well”) or when someone loses (e.g. “Good game. Do you want to play again?”. You could also practice empathy and discuss how other players may be feeling at the end of the game. 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 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.

Why We Love It: Kids can’t get enough of the suspense of who will be the popper despite the simple nature of the game. It’s unusually satisfying to watch the pig’s belly grow larger, and fun to watch it pop. If you want to play a longer game, you must go with the ‘pop the pig and lose’ rule. Because that keeps eliminating one player at a time, the game resets, and the last one standing wins. This rule also makes the game more suspenseful. Ironically kids get excited when their turn is skipped because that’s a chance to not lose the round. For a faster game, you can ignore the numbers and just play that the player chooses the colored burger they spun and then hit the head button 5 times as they say their speech word (if applicable.) 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!Encourage your child to hold the pig steady with their non-dominant hand while feeding the pig and when pressing down on the pig’s head. 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. It’s possible, but it may get complicated for young kids. You can easily assign numbers 2 through 5 to the different colors of hamburgers used in the game. The number 1 can be used as a skip and number 6 as ‘all colors’ or ‘any color’. While this is fairly easy to remember for us, preschool kids might easily get confused between colors and numbers. Are the materials used to make Pop the Pig game durable and safe for kids? 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.