They picked to play the Disney Jr. Super Stretchy Game first – it’s a Target Exclusive, and the website has this to say:
“Get up and moving with the beloved character from Disney Junior, including Doc McStuffins, Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Sofia the First, and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse! One player flips over cards and calls out characters, colors, and shapes on the giant floor mat and the parts of your body you need to touch them with! You stretch out and get creative physically. Can you reach them all?
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Manufacturer’s Suggested Age: 3 Years and Up
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Includes: Instructions, Game Pieces
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Material: Plastic, Cardstock
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Playing Time: 20-40 minutes -
Number of Players: 2-4 Players
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Level of Difficulty: Beginner
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Battery: no battery used”
My thoughts: This game is basically a more fun Disney version of Twister! My kids totally loved calling different shapes, colors, and especially characters to put their hand/elbow/knee/head/foot on! The suggested age is 3 and up, however, A) the “and up” definitely has it’s limits, while perfect for the littles, when I tried to play I found that my limbs were just too long for this small playing mat; and B) I would say my 3-year-old daughter wouldn’t have been able to play this on her own or with other 3-year-olds, but having my 5-year-old son to help her with it was perfect. He caught on to it immediately and was able to help and guide her through several rounds. They really enjoyed playing this together, and I really enjoyed that it was a game that had them moving, and also that it required few pieces and was easy and quick clean-up. 
PROMOTES: Imaginative play, Turn-taking and playing together, Counting
CONTENTS LIST: 1 Game Board, 4 Interlocking Wall Panels, 2 Plastic Wall Braces, 4 Pet Movers, 1 Spinner, 1 Clock Frame, 4 Clock Tiles, 49 Goodies Cards, Instructions”
My thoughts: The website also says that the recommended age for this game is 3-6 years. Let me tell you, it definitely took this 32-year-old a fair amount of time to set up the game, and read and understand the directions. It’s a 3-D game, where you create the different rooms in the Royal Pet Salon, then move the little pets around to each room basically playing eye-spy on the floor and walls for different items on the deck of cards. It wasn’t terribly tricky, just took some doing for the first time we played it (I had to reread the directions more than once) but after that it was quick and easy. My 3-year-old was in love with the little pets (nice plastic game pieces, not cardboard or cheap materials) – in fact I won’t be surprised if they “mysteriously” disappear from the box so she can play with them separately. However this game was beyond her attention span, so my son and I were really the only ones left playing after a few minutes. This game is totally appropriate for adults to play with kids, I liked searching for the items so I could collect the cards and my son really loved it (he’s not too macho to play a pink and purple palace pets game)! He is totally into “eye spy” games and this was no exception.
Overall my kids enjoyed both games quite a bit and we had such a fun morning playing games together in our jammies. The Palace Pets game was probably both kids favorite game to play, although I preferred the Super Stretchy game because I could trust the kids to set it up and put it away on their own. Either game would make a little one very excited to find under the tree.
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