level 1 | mathematics | world | gamiverses | recognition-and-discrimination

Description

Santa’s Stamp Shuffle (subtitle: Merry mail at the North Pole Post) is a fun, simple Christmas game for the whole family about sending Christmas cards!

Players receive jolly cards with specific colors and icons, which they want to send to the right person. The better their card matches their envelope, the more points they score.

The base game is playable with young kids, simple enough to explain in 3 minutes, and cooperative (you work together as one team). It is “textless” and “numberless”; any text and numbers you see on cards is only for expansions.

What expansions? Well, ones that add more fun things like postage stamps (to place on the envelope to improve it) and flags (actually requiring you to send the envelope to the right place)! With some simple expansions enabled, the game becomes a true tactical challenge of spreading as much Christmas cheer as possible. You can also play the game competitively then, player against player.

The game has educational undertones, as it teaches about colors, flags of countries (which have large Christmas traditions), and some simple counting and “thinking ahead”. But it was first and foremost designed as a fun family experience during the festive season!

The material contains a large number of unique and beautiful Christmas cards (and envelopes/stamps). You can simply cut out the envelopes and use them “flat”, or you can keep the front attached to actually get a 3D envelope you can put things into.

REMARK! Please note that these are not “official stamps”. Do not glue or tape them to the envelopes, and do not use them for actually sending mail, as that will likely fail ;)

Details

  • ✔️ Pay once, use forever, however.
  • ✔️ No hidden costs or data tracking.
  • ✔️ No sign-up required.
  • ✔️ No difficult licenses or restrictions.
  • ✔️ Instantly arrives in your inbox. (Check spam folder!)
  • ✔️ Fun and effective!

Product Contents

  • Rules PDF (3 pages; 1 base game, 1 most important expansions, 1 with more modes and expansions)
  • Material PDF (36 unique Christmas cards, 24 envelopes, 64 postage stamps)
  • Original/Source Files (.af files that you can open and edit in the free Affinity software!)

Fine Details

DetailValue
Activity Structureturn-based
Age4
Colortrue
Duration30
Languageen
Level1
Multiplayer Modecompetitive, cooperative
Player Count2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Subjectmathematics, world
Textlesstrue
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Subject: Mathematics

The curriculum is split into six main subjects that align with your typical school subjects.

This resource is part of the Mathematics subject. Below is a summary:

This subject teaches Mathematics from first principles to calculus. Level 1 explores the basic skills needed before you do any counting or see any numbers (such as grouping and comparing objects). Level 2(+) can then introduce numbers, counting, addition, multiplication, and more.

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Faction: Gamiverses

This resource is part of the Gamiverses Faction.

But that's just one way to teach and explore its topic(s)!

You can always move to a different Faction to find a more effective way to teach the same topic.

Played a quiz? Try a game! Played a game? Try an escape room! And so on.

For example,

Charm: Board Game

This product is part of the Board Game charm.

Visit its main page to learn more about what that means. Below is a summary:

Board Games are simply physical games (as opposed to video games). They could be played using cards, without a board, with players physically moving around, anything.

Our board games follow the rule that your first game should only require a single page of setup + rules. Most of them are cooperative multiplayer experiences.

Spell: Recognition & Discrimination

This resource is part of the Recognition & Discrimination topic (or "spell").

A crucial first step to Mathematics and Logic is the ability to recognize things are the same or not. To discriminate between alike things.

This resource also covers other topics. To keep things simple, the curriculum always considers the first topic listed to be the most important.

Use the buttons below to navigate to the previous or next topic in the curriculum.

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The Spell (or "educational topic") of this product is Recognition & Discrimination.

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The Faction (or "product type") of this product is Gamiverses.

This approach might work for some Apprentices but not for others! That's why we recommend exploring each topic in a variety of ways.

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