With stay at home orders, board games offer the opportunity to spend quality time together as a family–time away from screens and through structured social interaction. Now is a great time to invest in educational board games that are replayable, fun and support learning through play.
In this blog and video series, I’ve putting together some educational board game recommendations, loosely arranged by recommended ages – so visual games that don’t require a lot of reading and share great concepts for early learners are first. Many say ages 7+ or 8+, but younger students can play many of these too.
Next up, check out the full list below of all of the board games I mentioned and showed in the video, including the educational benefits and where to purchase the game!
Educational Board Games
Set
1+ players
What I like: completely visual, and great to play at any time, even while doing other activities
Educational value: developing pattern recognition, shape, color recognition, logical reasoning
Ice Cool
2-4 players
What I like: play as wobbly penguins trying to maneuver around the board and collect your fish
Educational value: fine motor skills and geometry (angles and reflection)
Tsuro
2-8 players
What I like: visual, no words, only need to hold 3 tiles
Educational value: visualization and informative feedback, multi-step problem solving
Looney Quest
2-5 players
What I like: plays like a video game so relatable concepts for kids to understand how it plays
Educational value: spatial temporal reasoning, fine motor skills
Slide Quest
1-4 players
What I like: cooperative, families really have to work together!
Educational value: fine motor skills, communication skills
Patchwork
2 players
What I like: the strategy in balancing the button gaining aspect versus covering more area and getting the perfect pieces to fll your board.
Educational value: spatial reasoning, critical thinking
Planet
2-5 players
What I like: really great components and theme of building your own planet biome by biome!
Educational value: 3D visualization, multi-step problem solving
Santorini
2 or 4 players
What I like: it’s an abstract strategy game, I think of it as an alternative to chess for younger players
Educational value: multi-step problem solving, critical thinking
Thank you for checking out my list of educational board games for kids and families. If you’d like to see more, check out the full series of Calli’s Corner videos on Youtube!
While many of these games were given to us free of charge, no compensation was collected for being included in this blog and video. Links include affiliate links – thank you for supporting Unfiltered Gamer!
