The Games We Play and Why – Educational Board Games that Kids Love!
Peaceable Kingdom Hoot Owl Hoot Award Winning Cooperative Matching Game for Kids
- Players work together to help the owls fly back to their nest before the sun comes up; if they are successful everyone wins!
- Children learn simple strategy and social development skills with no reading required
Cranium Hullabaloo – Cranium Hullabaloo
- Encourages listening, problem-solving and friendly competition
- Kids play alone or with friends -giggling guaranteed
Ravensburger Rivers, Roads, And Rails – Children’s Game
- The objective is to be the first player to use up all your cards making a continuous network of paths.
- Children have to think ahead to use up all their cards.
- A clever family board game where planning, good visual alertness, and light strategy will lead to winning.
Educational Insights The Sneaky Snacky Squirrel Game
- Color matching game for all ages
- Designed to teach matching, sorting, counting, and simple math skills
- Great first board game for a child
- Symbol Recognition
- Brain – eye association
Peaceable Kingdom Willy’s Wiggly Web Award-Winning Preschool Skills Builder Game
- Players work together to cut all the bugs free before Willy the Spider falls from the wiggly web
- Children learn motor skills, hand-eye coordination, counting and social development skills with no reading required
- Two players or teams race to correctly guess the secret sweet treat that the other player or team has chosen.
- The age range for this game is 5-10 years
- This game focuses on recall, memorization, logical deductive reasoning, pattern recognition, and being able to follow multi-step directions.
5 Second Rule – Just Spit it Out!
Categories
- Builds Quick Response Time
- With only 5 seconds to name 3 things that fit the topic, it doesn’t seem so easy, but the kids love it!
- Geography
- Scanning
- Critical Thinking Skills
Cauldron Quest Cooperative Game
Involves potions and magic, which the kids love.
- It is a cooperative game, which we love.
- The players need to work together to collect the ingredients needed to make a potion to stop the evil wizard.
- This is a good game for children of different ages.
Apples to Apples Junior – The Game of Crazy Combinations!
- Vocabulary
- Relationships/Critical Thinking
- Players race against each other to build crossword grids
- Build vocabulary skills while exercising the eyes and learning to respond quickly.
- Great for travel
- Builds visual skills and critical thinking skills
- Learn cause and effect, planning, association, recognition, and taking turns.
- Exciting games of visual hide and seek
- Builds Visual Scanning and Visual Figure-Ground Skills
- Challenging for both beginners and wordsmiths alike
- Build vocabulary and word building skills
Scrambled States of America Game Card Game
- Builds faster response time
- Teaches about United States Geography
Catan 5th Edition- Teaches critical thinking, problem-solving, and strategy development
- Communication game
- Strengthens social skills
- A great ice-breaker or a serious exchange of thoughts, feelings, and ideas
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