There are relatively often threads around here dealing with most and least favorite Zelda games, what aged well and so on, so here's something slightly different.
I am Zelda fan and I got both of my sons hooked on it, so now they are big Zelda fans as well. We played through all 3D Zeldas (expect for MM), so I figured let's see how they rate them.
On two separate occasions, I gave them a task to rate Zeldas, first time to rank them from 1 to 5 and second time to give them score from 1-5. On both occasions, results were very similar.
My older son's (8) ranking:
1) Skyward Sword
2) Twilight Princess
3) Ocarina of Time
4) Wind Waker
5) Majora's Mask
My younger son's (6) ranking:
1) Wind Waker
2) Skyward Sword
3) Twilight Princess
4) Ocarina of Time
5) Majora's Mask
This topic is something that is probably, due to specific criteria, better suited for a much larger forum, but I would love to hear about this from other people who have kids or young siblings/niblings that are Zelda fans as well.