Best Wii Games for Girls 6-8

This is a simple role playing adventure, in which your child gets to create her own princess and play the part. Favorite Disney Princesses need her help to restore their kingdoms. While there are enemies to be fought, there is no killing - your little princess simply uses her magic wand to turn the enemies into butterflies.

No reading help needed, she just needed a little bit of help figuring out how to create her princess in the beginning. Otherwise, she did it all on her own.

In SimAnimals, the player is represented in the game by a hand, with which they can pet or pick up animals and tend a garden or forest. Additional players receive hands of their own, and are able to do all the same things.

It's a very open game, allowing even very young children to have fun with it, ignoring the goals to play with the animals and the forest.

My daughter needed a little reading help, figuring out the goals, but spent many more happy hours on her own in open-ended play.

Although this is the second game in the SimAnimals set, they are very different games. The cute humor is still here, but play is slightly less open. There's a stronger focus on goals.

Players have disembodied hands again, but also can actually choose to play as an animal to control their movements.

She did need some reading help with this one.

This game has all the cuteness of the Littlest Pet Shop toys, complete with dress up. Mini games played with their pets earn the coins needed to buy more train tickets for new pets to come to the area.

She needed A LOT of reading help in the beginning, to figure out the goals required to unlock additional pets and areas. Once everything was unlocked, she was able to play completely on her own.