I was just browsing around on the geek and found Zopp! I've been trying to figure out what I want for Christmas and this just might be it! Here's a video of it in action. It is kind of pricey, but damn, it looks like fun! It also looks like a great dexterity game for both kids and adults.
Also, I found these lists of games for kids:
Playing "real" games with 5/6 year olds
Games that Daughter the Elder will trade bedtime books to play
EDIT:
Taking the advice of one of these lists, I introduced Simon to Carcassonne yesterday. He took to it pretty quickly, but we did simplify the rules a bit. We only scored the roads, cities and monasteries and we didn't score anything after the last tile was played. I won, but only by two points. He was very excited to play a game that daddy plays with "the guys."
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry: for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. –Albert Einstein
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Barbnocity's Found Money Project 2010:
Money found as of 12/14/10: $71.25 USD; $8.45 CAD;
$2.01 AU; $0.01 Irish penny
Hawksbill has a 2nd blog where he writes about his hobbies over here.
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Woo hoo! My lovely bride suggested we get this for each other as a family xmas present. It turns out she loves Air Hockey and Zopp looks like a turn-based version of that.
So, we ordered it yesterday and got free shipping. So, the next time we have a gaming day... we shall Zopp!
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