Today I would like to introduce you to the company called Educational Insights based out of Southern California. Educational Insights is the manufacturer of playful products with serious educational value, including subject-specific classroom products, teacher resources, educational toys, and games. Their products are designed by seasoned educators & parents who know that children love to learn when you make that learning experience fun!
When you visit the >Educational Insights online web site you will find that it’s really easy to navigate. The web site has three tabbed categories which are the sections for Parents, Teachers and Classroom Jeopardy. Since I am a mother and grandmother…I could spend hours just browsing around their parent’s section of the web site.
Our Review: Today we are reviewing for you the Batter Up! game by Educational Insights. This is a great game for teachers or those who home school several children. Since I do neither of those occupations I decided to invite 4 boys to my home to try out the game here. (ages: 10, 11, 11 and 12). The first thing you do is hang up the ball field banner (we just placed ours on the floor). You will need a dry erase marker to use this because you write each players name onto the bottom of a game piece and you will also use the dry erase marker to keep score on the scoreboard which is at the top of the banner. We divided the 4 boys into 2 teams and my hubby was the referee ummm supervisor of the game LOL. Now before the boys got here…hubby and I drafted up a list of 30 questions about various things we thought the boys would know about and we used that list as our questions. You ask each player a question and if they get answer right they can spin the dial (also on the banner) and the dial will tell them how their player moves on the board. There are little clear vinyl pockets on each base and they will move their player into that pocket on the base according to what they spun on the dial. After we were done asking them these 30 questions (a little over an hour) the team that had the highest score..won the game and in this case it was C and N.
The boys all play baseball so they were really excited about playing this and they have a lot of fun doing it! So even if you are not a teacher…you can still play this game at home and do it like we did. I think my hubby had just as much fun as the boys as he was the one primarily asking them the questions. We are very pleased with this item and the boys are already planning to visit again so they can try out the game again with us. We highly recommend it! You can purchase the Batter Up! game from Educational Insights for $14.99 which is a fabulous price!
Disclaimer: Shelly has personally reviewed the product listed above. Shelly has not received any monetary compensation for her review. Shelly did receive a free product to try out so she could evaluate and use it for her review. Her thoughts & opinions in this review are unbiased & honest and your opinions may differ. All Rights Reserved.