Best Board Games for Your Children — Make a Wise Choice!

Shawn Davison
3 min readJan 24, 2017

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Board Game

While there are so many board games available these days, choosing the best one for your kid might become a big challenge for you. In this article, we’ll look at some of the best board games for kids pertaining to the specific age groups.

Gone are the days when the family would gather around the kitchen table, just in order to play a board game. Things have changed, and from elders to toddlers, people are spending most of their time on screens.

Are you among the parents who want to keep their kids away from gadgets, at least for some time? Well, here is the list of best board games to bring the good family days back. Have a look:

Best Board Games for Preschoolers:

Feed the Woozle:

A big, hairy monster with a pretty large appetite is something to win over the heart of your little one. There can be maximum 6 players and there are 3 levels to play this game. While the first level is just regular walking, in the second involves a spinner, and in level 3, the blindfold challenge comes into play, where you rely on the guidance of the other players. This will help improve their counting ability, coordination, fine motor skills, and balance.

Raccoon Rumpus:

In this amazing game, each player gets a card of a raccoon standing in its underpants. It is a perfect game for 3 year olds and above. It calls for 2 to 4 players and teaches your kids about colors and costumes, helping you to develop their memory, matching and social skills.

Chutes and Ladders:

This is a favorite game of many and one of those really simple games you and your kids will love to play over and over again. It is one of the best classic board games which helps improve counting ability, aids learning number sequences, adding up skills, and patterns.

Best Board Games for Graders

Qwirkle:

The best part about this game is that it is really simple. All you need to do is just build lines of tiles which are all one shape or all one color. Of course, there is dire need to apply a bit of clever thinking, and thus it develops pattern recognition, strategic and math skill.

Carcassonne:

Bring home a medieval spin on the classic tile-laying game. Being all about strategy and thinking, it help the kiddos to develop their urban planning skills in the process.

Blokus:

What about having a colorful 2–4 player strategy game? This game is fun, challenging, and so easy to learn. You child will be able to develop logic, empathy, matching, special thinking, and math skills.

Well, children are seriously turning tech obsessed and in the era of gadgets it is hard to keep them away from these devices completely. But certainly, these board games will help you to make them socially connected with friends and family, face to face. Make your pick today!

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Shawn Davison

Shawn Davison is co-owner of Level One Game Shop . Level One is a small game store devoted to board, tabletop, and card games located in Kansas City.