Item-no.: 22367

TREE HOUSE CLUB

A tricky climbing game for training observation and decision-making!

The tree house can also be used for free playing or role playing.

Age: 5 +

Players: 2 to 4

Contents: 1 wooden tree house

4 children

20 objects on wooden discs

1 dice with symbols

Game idea: Monika Mulzer-Adam

Illustration: Antje Flad

Yahoo! The tree house is ready at last. Lea and her brother Tom and also their friends from the neighbourhood, can still hardly wait. For

days they have measured, sawed and hammered with Dad’s help in order to build the tree house in the big fork of the branch of the old

cherry tree.

They are particularly happy that their parents inside the family house have hardly any view of the tree house as soon as the ladders are

pulled up. There is even a little lift, that is a basket, which is pulled up with a rope and then let down again.

Lea and Tom have invited two children from the neighbourhood and together they have a lot of fun celebrating the move into the tree

house.

Each child brings 5 things. There are so many things to carry up! Food, drinks, toys and of course tools to do some improvement jobs on

the inside of the tree house.

Will they be able to pull up the objects in the basket every so often so that they can soon start the housewarming party in the tree house.

Aim of the game: Which child will be the first to find the 5 objects (s)he brought and pull them up into the tree house?

Game Preparation: Before the game can begin, the tree house has to be assembled. (see picture)

The rope ladders are then hung into the holes provided for that purpose.

How to Play: Each child now selects a playing piece and puts it directly under a ladder. Each playing piece owns 5 objects on wooden discs.

The wooden discs are mixed and spread face down around the tree house.

The youngest child begins the game by upturning one of the discs and if the colour of the object matches the playing piece (s)he has chosen, (s)he may keep the disc. If the colour is not the same, the disc is placed face down again. Each child puts the discs collected in the same colour as his/her playing piece down in front of him/her.

It is now time to throw the dice.

If the dice shows one or more rungs of the ladder, the playing piece can be moved up one or more rungs accordingly. As the playing piece

moves up, it takes one object up with it. If no object has been found, it is not necessary to move the playing piece up.

If the dice thrown shows a basket with the “arrow inside”, you can put as many objects as you like into the basket.

If the dice shows the bucket with ”arrow upwards”, the bucket is pulled up, regardless of whether or not there are objects inside it.

If there are objects in the bucket, these are put into the tree house and the basket is lowered again immediately. It is also lowered again immediately if there are no objects in the basket.

If the dice shows the tree house, the playing piece may go into the tree house immediately regardless of whether or not it is on the ladder. An object can be taken up along with the playing piece.

The basic rule is that as soon as a playing piece has reached the tree house, an object which goes with the playing piece can be placed in the tree house.

The playing piece is then brought down again immediately and placed in front of the ladder.

The winner is the first child to bring all his/her 5 objects into the tree house.

Have a lot of fun with this merry climbing game!

Beleduc Lernspielwaren GmbH

Heinrich-Heine-Weg 2

D-09526 Olbernhau

Germany