Games to go along with the Blues Clues Party should be suitably intriguing and fun, just like the show that the kids love to watch. So here are a couple of games that can keep your guests happy.

The first game is 'Who am I?' Though it is a common game you can gear it easily towards the Blues Clue theme. Pick someone to be it and send them out of the party room. Then gather together the rest of the party goers and have them decide on who the 'it' person is going to be when they come back into the room. To gear this party more towards the theme you can choose one of the characters from the television show, such as Blue the dog, or toaster.

When you've decided on the character, call the 'it' person back into the room. Whoever is it will get to ask each person at the Blues Clues party one question about themselves. It must be in the form of a yes or no question. When the 'it' person guesses who they are they have to call it out or at the end of the question session they must give their best guess.

This next game called, 'Up Jenkins' is all about observation and logic, which is what Blues Clues is all about. You'll need a penny, table and enough chairs for everyone for this game.

Divide the Blues Clues party guests into two groups. Have the groups sit in chairs on opposite sides of the table. First one group will be given the penny and they will pass it to each other in front of the other group, but keep it concealed under each others hands. Once the group has decided on who will have the penny, they'll place all of their hands on the table in the form of a fist. The other group calls, 'Up Jenkins' when they are ready and all the fists are raised. The other group will look closely at all of the fists to try and determine who has the penny. Then they will call, 'Down Jenkins' and all the fists will be placed flat on the table.

When the other group is ready they point to the hand they think the penny is under and all is revealed. If they are correct they get a point and the penny to perform the same trick themselves. If they are wrong the point goes to the group already holding the penny and they repeat the trick a second time. If you want to make this game fit the Blues Clues theme better you can have the kids use a dog tag or a doggie treat instead of a penny.

Blues Clues 123 Time Activities

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Explore the world of letters, sounds, and words with Blue and her friends in this activity pack filled with multilevel learning games. Identify letters, build vocabulary, practice phonics, and create rhymes as you collect words to help Blue build silly stories in her Word Book. The more words you collect, the more stories you can create and print out.

Blue and her friends help strengthen early learning skills, including initial letter recognition, upper and lowercase letter discrimination, alphabet recognition and sequencing, phonics, visual and auditory discrimination, consonant blends, word formation, early vocabulary, and rhyming.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
wide variety of activities
By Science Mom
The wide variety of activities means there is always something new and different - and the printable activities (the mazes and books mean you can take the activites with you - COOL). Some activites are harder than others, but the hard ones give a challenge while the easier ones give some confidence building - and my little one rests a while in an easy activity and then gets back to the harder ones. He's learning to recognize letters and he's already good at HEARING the rhymes even though he can't read them yet.

Previous reviewers said the game is confusing - yes it does take some figuring out, but I think it is more confusing to us goal oriented adults. We want to know how to win the points and earn the prize. My son (age 2) just enjoys the PROCESS of playing - he doesn't really care if he collects enough letters to make a word - but that will come later. For now he's learning learning learning and when all that repitition makes collecting words easy THEN he'll figure out what to do with the word book.

The reviewer that suggested you learn how to play first and then guide your child was absolutely right. And that goes for ANY software at this age.

P.S. for all you goal oriented adults: you earn letters by completing any task in any of the activities. When you get three letters they will be a three letter word. When you go to your word book these words wil be waiting for you to put them on the page that matched the word color. Later you can insert these words in the blanks to make stories. You can even print the stories, or the book of words you collected, or the animal pictures you collected.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Not her favorite, but useful
By Tracy
I bought this software when my daughter was 3. She doesn't love it and never asks for it, but if I put it in, the games hold her interest. I don't think she understands the overall scheme of making a "word-book," and she can't do everything the games will let her do. However, after a few frustrating times playing the spelling game, I was surprised that she could construct the pictures using the shapes provided and put the letters in their places to spell the words. From just this game she learned how to drag and drop with the mouse. And something clicked in her mind about reading. I saw a direct transfer of her putting letters in already-made places to her trying to make words with magnets on the refrigerator and learning to read words on paper. I think she also got a better idea from this game about how to guess a word based on the clue of the picture. All the words from the game quickly became sight words for her. My daughter's not 4 yet, but can sound out words and knows words by sight because of games like this.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Blue's Clues Fun
By Miss Mia
My 2 1/2 year-old son enjoys this game. He gets a little bored with the intro. because he's anxious to begin playing, but loves the game. I was surprised at how well he did. Don't be afraid to let one this young play with the mouse and try to do it on his/her own. Just be ready to provide help as they need it.

This game offers different activities like simple puzzle piecing with the Felt Friends, letter recognition with Mail Box, letter sounds with Mr. Salt & Mrs. Pepper, rhyming with Slippery Soap, and more. I like the variety, because there are activities that my son can already enjoy and then others that he can enjoy as his skills improve.

The storybook part of the game was a little confusing at first. But once you realize that certain color words go on certain color pages, it's easy to understand. However, this part of the game is a little more advanced in the learning stage for kids.

I do recommend this game. I only wish it had a painting section for my child. I realize that there is separate game for art time activites, but it would be nice if it had a painting section, along with these activities.

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