Are you looking for some amazing games for kids?
We all know kids are constantly growing and learning, right?
My son is is 6 going on 7 and he loves playing family games.
What’s interesting is that most of these we’ve had for years but we keep adapting them to his age/ ability level.
Which ultimately means we’ve gotten some great years out of these games.
And will only continue to get better.
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Amazing Games for Growing Kids
Monopoly
We started playing Monopoly when he was maybe 4.
Being able to roll the dice and move the pieces around is great practice. We’d help him with the money and reading.
We never managed to officially finish a game but it was always fun.
Now he can read pretty much all of our on his own and it’s great math practice and money practice!
We still have yet to finish a game but he’s enjoying the strategic and family time.
Boggle
We’ve been playing Boggle too for at least a year or two.
It’s wonderful to see his spelling and vocabulary improve.
He’s understanding adding an ‘s’ to words to increase his score.
It’s such great practice!
Now, they do have a ‘Junior Boggle‘ that is played slightly differently but I think you can get away with the adult version.
Rumikub
Rummikub has always been a family favorite and my son is finally starting to get into it.
It’s a tile game based on a card game.
The basic idea is to get rid of your pile of tiles by finding groups of numbers.
Either number in a row or a group of the same numbers.
The trick is that they either need to be all the same color or each a different color.
One strategy is to figure out how to rearrange tiles that have already been laid down to help you get your tiles placed.
There is no counting involved, although you could certainly add that in during the game to get extra math practice.
Otherwise, it really is about recognizing numbers, numbers in order, and colors.
Pictionary
Now, Pictionary does include being needing to be able to read the clues so if your little one can’t read yet then they may need help with that but otherwise I bet they can draw just fine 😊
In fact, I bet they might be able to draw better than most of the adults since we don’t have a tendency to do much drawing as adults.
My son is starting to read so it’s been a lot of fun to watch him read the clues to himself and get it right.
And yes, he draws almost 100% better than the rest of us lol.
Zingo
If you’ve read some of my other posts, you know that we’ve had Zingo in our lives for several years now 😊
We went from just kinda playing.
Meaning, letting my son win, etc., to really playing and practicing our good sportsmanship skills.