My 6-year-old is really into playing games at the moment… so we’ve been playing a lot of Swap, Mancala and Dobble in the afternoons after school. I must say, my favourite games are the most simple ones. There are so many games these days which have instruction booklets the length of a novel, and loads of little, plastic game pieces which end up getting lost or broken. I definitely prefer the simple, straight-forward (if not old-fashioned) games.

This 3-D Tic Tac Toe is a game I played as a child, and a game I still enjoy as an adult (even my husband and I play each other!). It’s a good game for teaching kids to count, strategise, play defensively, and try to line up all your pieces. My 6-year-old is really enjoying it, and it’s fun to have an addition to our game rotation.

x Courtney