Spot It! Miles From Tomorrowland, learning made fun

Is it better to refer to Spot It! as learning made fun or fun made learning? It is a fun card game that kids of varying ages will enjoy and have fun with, but they’ll also learn something from it. We were provided with Spot It! Miles From Tomorrowland, Spot It! Basic French and Spot It! Basic Spanish for the kids to try out. Each deck of cards comes in a tin can with round cards that have letters, pictures, words or numbers on them. Any two cards will have one pair of things that are an exact match. It sounds simple and to an extent it is, but it’s also great practice for young minds who are learning early concepts.

For example, Spot It! Miles From Tomorrowland is not entirely a Disney toy. Sure your children know the show from Disney XD, but it’s because they know the show that they’ll want to excel (and beat their friends) at Spot It! In addition to having all of the characters from Miles From Tomorrowland spread out through the 55 cards players will also find the alphabet and numbers 1-9.

On every card kids will quickly look over it and determine what is thing that they both have in common. Some cards will have Miles Callisto, Merc or a planet, while other will have a letter or number. The first person to correctly touch the card and say what they have in common wins that round.

Sometimes when you open a LEGO set and you’re certain that there’s a piece missing. You’ve just opened the box, separated the colors, but can’t find the one piece that will complete a section. Spot It! is like that. In both cases there is something that’s the same on both cards and that missing LEGO piece just landed on the carpet at a funny angle, look again.

We had some kids over to play the game; I refereed and watched the fun unfold. Our son’s friend is a big Miles From Tomorrowland fan and initially made short work of the cards that had matching characters. Once they got the hang of it the game was a horse race as to who was going to have the most cards.

Fans of Japanese culture know this as a form of karuta. It’s a popular way to teach children concepts or English words in a way that is more of a game than education. Over there the older version of the game is serious competition and a way for adults to have fun too.

Spot It! has a game that’s up appropriate for any interest, camping, NHL, MLB, road trip, Planes, Doc McStuffins, Frozen, San Francisco and many more.

With the French and Spanish language Spot It! cars the game shifts just a little bit to have a match on every two cards, but it might be picture to word, instead of being identical. On one card I’ll see a horse and on another I’ll see ‘cheval’. Each set comes with a glossary of the images and terms so that kids who can read will be able to sort through it themselves. Because of that the recommended age for these cards is 6 and up, where as the age for the other cards is 3 and up.

The concept behind Spot It! is very simple. Its engaging enough to keep kids interested for a series of games, they’ll form championships, laugh and have fun all the while reinforcing base concepts that’ll help them down the road.  We’ll stick with learning made fun for the win.