To produce this list I've looked at kids games in a few different ways and from a few different viewpoints. And I had quite a few goals.

In terms of ways, I've looked at the top rated games for kids by minimum age, a lot of the data for this has come from www.KidGameRatings.com, a site set up by a BGG user, Cull, because BGG did not meet his requirements for giving ratings for kids.

I have also set up another account and made geekbuddies of everyone who has the "Plays Games With Children" microbadge, plus quite a few other people who commented on kids geeklists from a kid viewpoint. Thats 321 geekbuddies. My expectation is that these people are more likely to do their BGG ratings of games thinking about the kids as players. I've looked at the kids games that this group of users rate the highest.

I've also looked at the minimum age rating by manufacturer, by BGG users and by KidGameRatings users.

In terms of different viewpoints I have the manufacturer, BGG users, the geekbuddy group and the users of KidGameRatings.com.

The goals are:
1. To produce a list of great kids games, sorted by age
2. To look at the variances in minimum age rating
3. To look at the variances in game rating to look for quantative evidence for people to support Cull's campaign for Kid's ratings for games on BGG

The list is sorted by minimum age as recommended by KidGameRatings.com users. Towards the end of the list (most of page 2 actually) the games aren't kids games at all, but games that older kids (7+) could enjoy.

In the entries the numbers in brackets are the number of raters and the "BGG differential" is the difference between that score and the BGG score.

Feel free to add other great kids games to this list.

Here are links to Cull's recent forum posts about Kid-centric ratings:
Kid-centric ratings on BGG
Allow "kid-game specific" ratings