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Educational Family Games for Children

When planning a family night at home, create some educational games for your children. The adults can play along while the children build fine motor skills and learn educational lessons. Encourage your children to try their best by awarding a small piece of candy or sheet of stickers to each game winner. All you need are a few ideas, a creative imagination and some supplies to get started creating entertaining games for your family game night.
  1. Word Scrambles

    • Create word scrambles for the entire family using names of random household items. For example, create a food-themed word scramble using words like apple, orange, bread and milk. Write the words on a sheet of paper -- but scramble the order in which the letters appear. Make a copy for each child. Place one face down on the table in front of each child. When you say, "Go," the players can flip over the sheet of paper and try to solve the words by unscrambling them. The first player done wins the game; however, allow each player to finish the word scramble. If mom and dad want to play along, print word scrambles from online and have everyone compete at once. Other word-scramble theme ideas include sports, class subjects and types of toys.

    Hunt Games

    • Print all the letters of the alphabet on separate sheets of paper. Make at least two sets of letters. If you have a game of Scrabble, you can use the letter tiles from that game. Hide all the letters around the house. Call out a word and your child hunt for the letters that belong to that word. If you have more than one player, hide several letters around the house and the first player to find the word wins a point. The first player to five points wins the game. For another hunt game, hide numbers that are answers to addition problems. Call out an addition problem and have your child or children try to find the correct answer.

    Bingo Games

    • Make bingo cards using spelling words. Write the same words on small slips of paper and place them in a bowl. Call out a spelling word and have the children mark their bingo card. If the children have a spelling word on the card, they can mark it with a bingo marker. When a child has a bingo, collect her card. She must spell out each one of the words used to create the bingo. Alternatively, write answers to math problems in the squares. Call out a math problem and have the children mark the answer on the bingo card. When she bingos, check her card to make sure her answers are correct.

    Memory Games

    • Work on your child's memory with games. Print pictures of random items (two of each item). Laminate the pictures to make them last longer and more durable. Place the pictures face down on a table. Have the children try to find pairs. If a child finds a pair, he goes again. The player with the most pairs at the end of the game wins the game. For another game, print math problems on one card and the answer on another card. The children must match the math problem with the answer to find a match.


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