✂️ Level up little hands with Ruby’s Gem Quest – where fun meets fine motor mastery!
Educational Insights Ruby's Gem Quest is a preschool board game designed for 2-4 players aged 3 and up. It combines safe scissor skill development with color matching and fine motor exercises, featuring a unique scooper tool, 20 colorful gems, and a spinner. The game promotes family interaction, turn-taking, and therapeutic hand muscle strengthening, all packed in a compact, easy-to-store design.
Item Dimensions | 2.5 x 9 x 8 inches |
Size | Small, Medium |
Material Type | Plastic |
Color | Multi |
Operation Mode | Manual |
Educational Objective | holding, squeezing, using scissors |
Number of Players | 4 |
M**E
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.
A**R
Fun for kids
Great game for toddlers to work on fine motor skills.
B**0
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.
A**R
Cute
Very cute game fun to play was worth every penny. Easy to understand and good motor skills learning and colors.
V**A
Love it
Beautiful game!! My 3 year old loves it
M**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.
P**N
Cute story with well illustrated pictures
Cute story with nice colorful pictures .
T**A
Easy fun game
Simple game. Children begged to play it 4x in a row.
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