Fun and Educational Board Games

My dear friend Dee Dee Curran of Educare Consulting in Seattle just sent me an awesome list of Fun and Educational Board Games. I want to share it with all of you, too.  I re-organized the list a bit for ease of use.  I can do a lot more re-organizing too, if you want.  Right now, it’s alphabetical.  The only game missing from the list is a family-fun sentence building game, You’ve Been Sentenced.

You’ll likely have the best luck finding these fun and educational board games at the one and only PlayFair Toys.

Which games do you already have?  Which do you want?   What is YOUR FAVORITE?  Any to add?

Here’s to a fun summer of learning and laughter, challenges and camraderie!  Go out and release those endorphines, increase your dopamine, and take in even more oxygen….board games to the rescue!

APPLES TO APPLES and SILLY SENTENCES (reasoning, category, association, sentence structure)

BANANA GRAMS (words, spelling, organization, speed, visual/spatial)

BLURT (definitions, memory, sentences)

BOBBITT (sequencing, auditory memory, attention)

BOGGLE JUNIOR (words, vocabulary, visual perception, multiple meanings, creating sentences)

CATCH PHRASE (description, word recall)

CLUE JUNIOR (thinking skills, problem solving skills, focus)

CLUSTERS (spelling, reading, decoding words, word building)

CRANIUM (vocabulary, spelling, general information, pragmatics and social interaction, following directions, strategy, concepts)    4^th grade and up

CRANIUM CADOO and CRANIUM WHOONU (multiple meaning, rebus, problem-solving, visual perception, memory, processing)

FRAZZLE and SCATTEGORIES (classification, categories, vocabulary)

GUESS WHO and QUICK PICKS (question structures, articulation, description, attributes, categories, if played with trying to guess which two then also working on inferences, deductive reasoning, short term memory)

MAD LIBS (grammar, story telling, sequencing, sentence structure, paragraph formation, syntax)

MASTERMIND (focus, attention, thinking, inferences)

OUTBURST Junior (word retrieval, general knowledge, association, description, naming, categories)

OTHELLO (strategy, planning ahead)

PICTUREKA and I SPY BINGO (focus, attention, visual scanning, visual processing, processing speed)

SCRABBLE JUNIOR and UPWARDS (vocabulary, spelling, multiple meanings, sentence creation, rhyming, articulation, definitions)

SENTENCE CUBE GAME (formulating sentences, organization, sequencing, syntax, semantics, organization)

SET (categories, attributes, same/different)

TABOO (deductive reasoning, creating sentences, descriptions, associations, synonyms, word classes, attributes, part/whole, categories, definitions)

TRIBOND (associations, categories, word classes, memory, word processing, definitions)

TRIVIAL PURSUIT JUNIOR (general knowledge, word retrieval, auditory processing, listening, vocabulary)

WORD GAMES that include word search puzzles, word jumble, wheel of fortune, password, “Simon Says”.

CHESS, DOMINOES, MONOPOLY JUNIOR, ALLOWANCE, SORRY, CARD GAMES, ALMOST ANY GAME THAT IS INTERACTIVE AND REQUIRES:

• COMMUNICATING
• THINKING
• MEMORY
• PROCESSING

LINGUI SYTEMS GAMES: (www.linguisystems.com)

1. ROCKY MOUNTAIN – for 1-3 grades, (word retrieval, sound letters, question formation, visual imagining, word association, categories)

2. PLUNK’S POND – for 1-3 grades, (inferences, articulation, recall, auditory processing, description)

3. NO GLAMOUR LANGUAGE (comprehension, thinking, vocabulary, inferences, idioms)

4. IDIOM games (idiom practice to include meaning, usage and examples of when to use)

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