Part of the fun in raising Zoey is finding things that delight and educate her; I want to find fun, creative board games to play with her during our family game nights! This week I found a game called Save the Bee by Gamie. Which is essentially a Jenga-type game with a bee atop a honeycomb. Each player takes turns removing pieces of the honeycomb and whoever drops the bee, loses.
Zoey loves this game and has pretty much contributed to the bee falling every time we’ve played, but that does not stop her from enjoying it! Or requesting that I stack the honeycombs back up immediately to play again. My only gripe would be that it is slightly inconvenient to re-stack the honeycomb, but other than that, it is a wonderful game to play with children!
IN THE BOX
- A base
- 2 sides
- 45 honeycomb pieces
- A cardboard honeycomb shape
- 2 wands
- A spinner
INSTRUCTIONS
- Snap the 2 sides of the honeycomb into the base.
- Slide the honeycomb shaped cardboard piece into the base behind the sides and lay the whole thing down.
- Arrange the individual honeycomb pieces within the base and sides until they reach the top, then gently stand the whole thing upright and carefully remove the cardboard piece.
- Gently set the bee on the top center honeycomb and you’re ready to begin!
- Each player gets a wand and then takes turns spinning the spinner and removing a honeycomb piece of the same color they land on. If they land on space with multicolor honeycombs, they can remove a piece in the color of their choice. If they land on the prohibition symbol, they lose a turn.
- There are no rules that mention what happens if a player accidentally knocks out more than one honeycomb piece, we’ve just decided to let them fall and keep playing!
- Enjoy!
Whole Heartily 