Educational Insights Ruby’s Gem Quest – Preschool Fine Motor Board Game for Kids, Learning Scissor Skills & Color Matching, Fun Family Game Night, Therapy Games & Tweezer Toys, for 2-4 Players Ages 3+
Original price was: $12.49.$10.90Current price is: $10.90.
Sharpen those scissor skills as you take flight with Ruby, the gem-gathering dragon, with the only preschool game that teaches kids how to hold and use scissors and develops the tiny muscles they’ll need to use them! Spin to start your turn, then fly with Ruby across her colorful kingdom to scoop up the matching gem. The first one to collect each color wins! Little ones will also practice social emotional learning as they follow instructions, take turns, share, and win & lose gracefully. Includes 1 Ruby scissor scooper, 20 gems in 5 colors, spinner, 4 treasure chests, and a game board that doubles as the package for stress- and clutter-free setup and storage.
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ESSENTIAL SCISSOR SKILLS – Fly across the kingdom with Ruby as she helps you get the hang of safely holding, squeezing, and using scissors
HOW TO PLAY – Spin, collect the matching gem, and race to fill your treasure chest while developing tiny hand muscles and critical fine motor skills
FAMILY-FRIENDLY FUN – Perfect for 2-4 players ages 3+ with simple rules that encourage turn-taking, positive competition, and quality together time
INCLUDES – Ruby scissor scooper tool, 20 gems in 5 colors, spinner, 4 treasure chests, and a game board that doubles as packaging for easy setup and storage
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Samantha Dudley –
Game
Cute game to learn the basics to use scissors
BeachGirl710 –
Really adorable! Could use a few improvements, but well worth it.
This game is great fun and very attractive for anyone that loves dragons and/or gemstones. It helps to reinforce scissor skills as well as color recognition and is simple enough for a preschooler to play on their own. While the gameplay is definitely “babyish”, as long as your child likes gems and dragons, it will still keep them entertained (at least up to 6, I would imagine).Now to be nitpicky, I do wish they would add at least one more gem of each color as the game is designed to be for up to four players. There are only four of each stone and to win you need one of each color. While the spinner does give you a chance to “drop a stone”, it can be really frustrating for a 3/4 year old that only needs one more stone to win but another player has a duplicate stone in the color they need. If there were five of each color, it would make it a bit less frustrating.Secondly, the pink gemstone land is called “Opal Point”. All the other lands have names that match the color of the gemstone, but opals aren’t pink. It would be better if “Opal Point” had a different name that better went with the color, just to help communicate gem colors with the kids as a bonus.Another improvement I think would be great is if the game came with one more dragon scoop. That would just be a bonus to help make sharing struggles a bit easier (and to help you play the game if one goes missing!). This in no way detracts from the game, but it would just be an improvement in my opinion.All in all, I love the game and my son thinks it is great. He is actually being “forced” to work on scissor skills which has always been a struggle to get him to work on, so huzzah! Highly recommend if your kids need help with scissors.
Marie –
A good toy for learning to hold scissors
I bought this for my 3 year old granddaughter so she could start learning how to hold scissors. She loves playing with this while developing those skills.
Amazon Customer –
Fun for kids
Great game for toddlers to work on fine motor skills.
Amazon Customer –
Cute
Very cute game fun to play was worth every penny. Easy to understand and good motor skills learning and colors.
Marylou B –
Fun and engaging game
I am a big fan of Educational Insights games. As an early childhood special educator I use their games a lot with my students. This game teaches turn taking, following game rules, eye hand coordination as well as strengthening fine motor skills. However, the dragon scooper is very flimsy not very sturdy. The gem colors are nice but it would have been better if they used all primary colors red, blue, and yellow not only the secondary colors orange, purple and green. In this was we can complete teaching primary and secondary colors.
victoria –
Love it
Beautiful game!! My 3 year old loves it
P H Nieman –
Cute story with well illustrated pictures
Cute story with nice colorful pictures .
Susan –
This was a huge success with my granddaughter who took to it immediately. The quality is great, and the box is very attractive and easily stored to contain the pieces of the game.
Alexandra Barbu –
I use this game at work as a reinforcement game for speech therapy and itâs a simple and cute game. The rules are easy, itâs great for turn-taking, and as an added bonus it works on fine motor skills !
Tamara –
¡Este juego de mesa es una joya, literalmente! El Juego de Habilidades de Búsqueda de Gemas de Ruby de Learning Resources ha sido un éxito rotundo en casa. Desde el primer momento, los peques quedaron fascinados con las coloridas gemas que tienen que encontrar y clasificar. Es un juego educativo, pero tan entretenido que los niños ni se dan cuenta de que están aprendiendo.El concepto es simple pero ingenioso: hay que buscar y recolectar las gemas según las tarjetas de desafÃo. Cada partida es diferente, lo que mantiene la emoción y el interés en cada ronda. Además, fomenta habilidades importantes como la concentración, la coordinación mano-ojo y la motricidad fina. Es un juego ideal para desarrollar el pensamiento crÃtico en los más pequeños de una manera divertida.El material es resistente y de buena calidad, lo que asegura que aguantará bien el entusiasmo de los pequeños buscadores de tesoros. Y lo mejor de todo es que pueden jugar varios niños a la vez, lo que lo convierte en una opción perfecta para compartir con amigos o en familia.En resumen, el Juego de Habilidades de Búsqueda de Gemas de Ruby es una opción brillante para aprender jugando. ¡Es un tesoro educativo que merece estar en cualquier colección de juegos de mesa!
Nina –
Great to work on Fine Motor skills and get those Scissor Skills going in a fun and engaging way! We also used the game to work on our letter sounds e.g. the G sound in ‘go’, the D sound in ‘dragon’, the A sound when he opens his mouth & the T sound in ‘turn’.
Melanson S –
My daughter absolutely love this game