Educational games play an important role in stimulating brain development of children. Have a quick look at the top 10 educational games which you should play regularly with your children.
Learning experiences of children can be enhanced well by allowing them to play educational games, or learning games. Today, the teaching tools are no longer limited to chalkboards, textbooks, blackboards, and worksheets. Games offer kids more interactive options and are a great way to learning. Take a look at the list of the top 10 educational games for kids.
1. Where Did It Go?
This game is for toddlers. You squeeze a soft ball inside a small container with a lid, and close the lid. Ask your kid, “Where did the ball go?” When your kid will open the container, the ball will pop out, which is surely going to get his or her attention. This is an exciting way to learn the fact that an object still exists even if you cannot see.
2. Feel It
This game is again for toddlers where you gathers items from the indoors or outdoors of different texture and allow your child to touch each one. For example, a piece of cardboard, a handful of sand, a silky scarf, tickly blades of grass, etc. This will teach your child how different objects feel differently.
3. ABC Hunt
When your kid grows up and starts
learning alphabets, this is the best game to play. Ask your kid to point toward any object that starts with a certain letter. You can play it often to strengthen their alphabet-learning ability.
4. Kitchen Stack-Ups
Empty cereal boxes, plastic bowls, square plates, etc. are perfect building materials for stacking up a tower while you describe their shapes to your kid. Once your homemade skyscraper is complete, ask your kid to turn it down while naming the shapes and sizes. This also teaches your kid cause and effect.
5. Collect Colours
Play this game to help your kid explore colours. Start with the toy box filled with kids-friendly objects of different colours like red, yellow, blue, green, etc., group the objects of similar colour, and name them. Ask your kid to fetch some object of a certain colour and he or she will happily do that.
6. What Am I Feeling
This game is good for little grown-ups who can differentiate between emotions, such as happiness, anger, depression, surprise, etc. You can make faces accordingly and ask, “Which emotion is this?” This helps them learning facial language easily.
7. Word-O-Gram
Once your kid is ready to try the spelling, arrange or point at household objects and ask your child to take the initial letter of each object and sound out the resulting word. For example, if you point at door, oil, and garden, the resulting word would be “DOG”.
8. Add and Subtract
When your child knows how to count, point towards a number of objects and ask them how many objects you pointed in total. Give them a situation that you have 10 apples and dad ate one apple, so how many are left? Your kid will get smarter in addition and subtraction very easily.
9. Scrabble
Once your child is strong with words, allow him or her to play scrabble with you. It is a
board-game where you and your kid has to arrange words by placing letter tiles in a crossword fashion, flowing from left to right in rows or downwards in columns. This strengthens the vocabulary.
10. Chess
Start playing chess with kids at an early age.
Chess is not only about defeating king, queen, soldiers, etc.; it helps in increasing higher level thinking skills,
reading skills, advanced math, and it also builds self-confidence.
Always be regular in playing these games with your kid often in your free time. This will keep your kid excited and he or she will get to learn a lot of things through such games at the same time. You never know you may find a prodigy in your little prince or princess.
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