Flip2BFit Fun Fitness Game For Kids Review
By Jeff
I was fortunate enough to receive a review copy of Heather Parisi’s Flip2BFit fitness game for kids. It’s a board game with the intention of letting kids have fun while at the same time getting fit.
All kids like board games, right? My kids play Candyland like it’s the latest video game. This Flip2BFit board game is another excellent tool parents can use to help keep their kids in shape.
Not only that but they’ll also learn about four main fitness categories: stretching, strength, cardio and yoga. This game is recommended for children ages six and up, but I wanted to see what my four year old could do. First let me tell you what comes with the game.
Here’s What Comes In The Box
I was surprised by how good of quality this game is! It comes in a nice box with a purple dinosaur on it. Inside the box is a baggie with four game pieces. They look like the old “Sorry” pieces from back in the day. The colors are purple, yellow, green and blue.
There is a wheel with a black arrow and four quadrants. Purple for cardio, blue for stretching, orange for strength and green for yoga.
There’s another box with four groups of cards in them. There are 25 cards for each of the four categories I listed above. The cards are really high quality and remind of the expensive baseball cards I used to get. I almost didn’t want to use them because they are so nice.
Each card has a series of tasks either for the individual who draws the card or it might say “Group Plays” in which the whole group participates in the activity. The neat diagrams on the back of the cards help you understand what to do.
Here’s an example from each category. For the yoga cards there is one in which you do the chair pose where you stand with feet together and arms stretched over head. You would then bend your knees as if you were sitting in a chair and you hold that position for 15 seconds.
In the cardio category there is a card where you have to do 15 jumping jacks. In the stretching category there is one where the child will do five shoulder shrugs forward and backwards.
My favorites are the strength cards where the person who draws the card can do sit-ups, pushups, squats and all sorts of healthy fitness moves.
The actual game board is really high quality and the basic object of the game is to travel through the park to meet Springer the dinosaur at the playground. In order to get there you have to draw enough cards and do all the yoga, stretches, cardio and strength exercises.
I Really Like This Game!
I’m a big fan of this board game because it teaches kids that fitness is fun. This is really important because many kids have been taught over the years that exercise is boring.
I also like this game because it gets the whole family involved. Yes, when we reviewed this game we had the whole family play. Mommy, daddy and our two daughters who are four and two.
Our two year old had a hard time keeping attention to the game but I would say most two year olds would be the same way. Our four year old loved the concept of the game and loved moving the game piece down the path each time she completed a task.
She did really good at the strength and cardio but struggled a little with yoga and stretching. I think if we continue to play the game she will catch on shortly.
The Flip2BFit Inc. company has a goal of reducing childhood obesity and wants to develop an active and healthy lifestyle for the whole family. They even have a PenPal Program that brings together children around the world.
You can learn more about Heather and Flip2BFit over at flip2bfit.com You can buy this cool fitness game for kids on Amazon.
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