The 25 Best Educational Games for Kids (That They'll Actually Like)
Kids of all ages will have fun while learning everything from geography to math.
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Pop some popcorn and get ready for game night! Preparing kids to learn elementary math skills, master the 50 states, and even recognize minerals is easier than ever thanks to a bustling market of educational games. While any basic board game—we see you, Candyland—has the potential to teach kids about counting and turn-taking, there is a new class of games specifically targeted to teach. Preschoolers can exercise their brain with memory games like Barnyard Bounce, grade schoolers can practice times tables with Proof!, and kids of all ages can benefit from the emotional literacy taught in Watch This Face.
If you already have all our picks for the best educational games, you can move onto teasing your kids with some fun trivia questions.
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Barnyard Bounce is a perfect entry point for board games. The matching game builds memory skills and encourages teamwork.
Age range: 3+
You'll need at least two players (and up to four) to play The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game, which encourages color recognition and matching skills.
Age range: 3+
Start teaching kids about how vast our planet is with this diverse matching game from Kids For Culture, a small company with a mission to introduce children to the beauty of differences.
Age range: 3+
Sight Words relies on repetition as a tool to help children recognize commonly used words. They see it, they say it, then they get to swat it!
Age range: 4-9
This wooden board is more complex than it may seem at first glance. The Montessori-style game teaches multiplication and addition via problem cards.
Age range: 5+
Kids may not be thrilled about your dusty old Scrabble board, but they will be excited to bust out this version made specifically for littles. It's the same conceit as the original, but there are fun character tokens to keep track of score and a more animated-looking board.
Age range: 5+
Teach them about numbers and money with Exact Change, a counting game for two players that takes a breezy 15 minutes.
Age range: 5+
Amazon reviewers love this educational puzzle game that helps early readers understand sentence construction.
Age range: 5+
This math game is ideal for kids learning addition and subtraction. Why the hammerhead theme? Because players get to hammer number bubbles, and what kid wouldn't love that?
Age range: 5-7
The classic game Shut The Box is just as much fun for adults as it is for kids. It's an easily teachable dice game that encourages number recognition and math skills.
Age range: 5+
Woman-owned business eeBoo makes some of the best educational games out there. This one is all about visualizing fractions and is so effective, it even won an the Oppenheim Gold Award.
Age range: 5+
The sooner kids are introduced to other languages, the easier it'll be for them to pick up new words. This bingo game features words in Spanish, French, German, and Mandarin Chinese. These are some of the most commonly taught languages in American schools so you'll be giving them a leg-up on their classmates!
Age range: 5+
Don't just give them any puzzle! Give them a puzzle featuring portraits of some of the most important women in history. This'll serve as a fun game as well as a lesson in the suffrage movement.
Age range: 5+
This kit works with an iPhone or iPad to introduce kids as young as five to coding as a concept. With thousands of 5-star ratings on Amazon, this game is well-worth the price tag. (There's also a version compatible with a Fire tablet!)
Age range: 5-12
When we think of educational games, emotional literacy might not be what immediately comes to mind — but it's such an important lesson. The adorably illustrated Watch This Face game helps kids recognize emotions by matching them to situations.
Age range: 5+
Bingo is a common way to educate kids about a number of concepts, and National Geographic makes a very cool version starring rock specimens. They'll be introduced to minerals via bingo as well as tic-tac-toe and trivia cards.
Age range: 6+
Learning Resources makes a few different Pop games, and this one is targeted around kids learning basic math. It's more fun than a sheet of homework and it'll allow them to practice with their friends; between two and four players can participate.
Age range: 6+
Bingo strikes again! This version shows kids the beauty within Yellowstone, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, and more. (You might just have to plan a road trip after.)
Age range: 6+
Like Scrabble and Shut the Box, Bananagrams is another game that's just as fun for adults. Participants grab tiles from the banana and use them to form their own word grid. This one is addictive!
Age range: 7+
Kids are usually taught the states around fourth grade, which makes this game perfect for 8- and 9-year-olds. They'll get an education in what makes each of the states unique via buzzwords, clues, and facts.
Age range: 8+
After over a decade as a digital editor, Maggie Panos is navigating freelance writing and full-time parenting. She covered entertainment for POPSUGAR from New York and San Francisco before setting down roots in tree-covered Portland and focusing on local journalism. A self-proclaimed "okay baker", Maggie is interested in all things lifestyle — especially if those things involve Bravolebrities.
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