Board Games for Kids

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I cleaned out our bins of educational games we used in homeschool over the weekend. Here is a list of some of our favorite board games for kids in a variety of subjects.

• Professor Noggin’s Ancient Civilizations Card Game, ages 7 and up, 2-8 players, Outset Media. All the Professor Noggin’s games make learning interesting facts fun. The game uses trivia, true/false, and multiple facts questions at both an easy and a hard level.

http://www.outsetmedia.com/games/professor-noggin-s/ancient-civilizations/card-topics

• Quizmo Multiplication and Division, Media Materials, ages 8 and up, 2-40 players.

https://www.reallygoodstuff.com/quizmo-multiplication-and-division-game/p/702802/

This game is an educational bingo game.

• National Geographic Geo Bee Challenge Board Game, National Geographic, ages 8 and up. This game lets you practice Geo Bee geography questions at both novice and expert levels.

https://www.ebay.com/p/Geo-Bee-Challenge-Board-Game-National-Geographic-2003/1000068312

• Bethump’d with Words Discovery Edition, ages 9 and up, 2-8 players. This game focuses on the story of words, featuring questions about idioms, euphemisms, homographs, borrowed words, and word evolution.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bethumpd-With-Words-Discovery-Edition/dp/B00004TXMT

• Geoshapes, TaliCor, ages 8 and up, 2-4 players. This game introduces your child to the names and shapes of geometric figures. It uses simple mathematics and probability, and develops an awareness of spatial reality.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Geoshapes-Game-That-Shapes-Imagination/dp/B0014NJJ9K

• Cranium Cadoo for Kids, Cranium, Inc., ages 7 up, 2 or more players. This fun, active game is great for a rainy day. It mixes up activities like acting, solving puzzles, sketching, sculpting and cracking secret codes, all done using a timer.

https://www.sortitapps.com/item/boardgames/9781893028548/

• Alien Hotshots, Gamewright, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Toy Award, Gold Seal, ages 8 and up, 2-4 players. This game is like the card game War, except you have to use math skills – evens and odds.

https://gamewright.com/product/Alien-Hot-Shots

• Hail to the Chief, the Presidential Election Game, Aristoplay, Parent’s Choice Award, ages 10 up, 2-4 players. This game covers the convention and the campaign stages of an election and includes four levels of questions.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/566468459363658028/?lp=true

• Atlas Adventures, The Green Board Game Co., includes two levels: Level 1 for 7 up, Level 2 for 12 up, 2 or more players. In this game, you collect oceans and continents to build a world map, giving, taking, and trading with other players, and answering questions leveled for difficulty.

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https://www.amazon.com/MindWare-95107W-Atlas-Adventure/dp/B0000AR6YQ

• Alpha Animals, Deluxe Family Edition, The Green Board Game Company, The Good Toy Guide Good Toy Award, ages 8 and up, 2-6 players. This game has two ability levels. The players race around a spiral board naming animals from specific groups: birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, spiders and crustaceans. Players answer challenge questions along the way

https://www.bonanza.com/items/like/361825910/1991-Green-Board-Alpha-Animals-Deluxe-Family-Edition-Game-Wild-Ark

• Create-a-Story, The Creative Writing Game, Great! Press, ages 5-99. Another multi-level play game, players structure a story, develop characters and plots, use dialogue, set up conflict and resolution, and then write. This game makes writing fun, develops creativity, and everyone is a winner

https://createpress.com/products/create-a-story-the-creative-writing-game