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Cow Games for Kids

Games give kids a chance to play and socialize--and to explore and enhance memory capabilities, nutrition basics and math, reading and science proficiency. Common games given kid-friendly themes, such as cows, draw children in and generate interest. They can also act as a catalyst for comprehension of learning skills and provide physical fitness options. Online cow games offer children an opportunity to get better acclimated to technology and the Internet.

Calcium Corral
- Meet Bo Vine. The amiable animation is the star of the National Institute of Child Health & Human Developments website’s Milk Matters For Kids page. The site features two online interactive games. In the The Great Escape, players collect calcium foods to help Bo get to the great calcium fair. There is also a cow bop game. Kids accrue points in cow bop by moving Bo to whack calcium-rich foods that pop up on the screen while Scott Joplin’s piano rag “The Entertainer” plays. Each game offers three levels: One for ages 4 to 8, another for ages 9 to 18 and a third for adults. The site also features an interactive puzzle and a printable maze, word search, word scramble, word decoder and coloring pages.
Counting Cows
- Car games are one way for kids to pass time on long treks.
  
  Counting cows is a car game. Before beginning, decide on landmarks that will determine when to start counting and when to stop. Kids count the cows on their side of the road, according to familyfun.go.com. The goal is to have the highest number of cow sightings before you reach your destination. Any side that passes a cemetery has to start counting over again. This game is suitable for ages 3 and up.
Dairy Detective
- The Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association’s interactive online Operation: Dairy game gives kids a glimpse of life at a working dairy. Children use a mouse to move a magnifying glass with which they find clues and earn tokens. The free game explores topics including animal care, the circle of life and milk production and includes video footage of each topic. It’s geared toward children 6 to 13. Players who collect all nine tokens can claim one of three customizable, printable awards.
Moon Vault
- Jump Cow Jump! is an online extension of the Mother Goose nursery rhyme “The Cat and the Fiddle." In it, children press the computer keyboard spacebar to make a cyberspace cow jump over a moon. Mothergoose.com’s free game includes “moo” sound effects and is geared toward children 3 to 5.
Roundup
- Hats are an optional accessory for kids playing cattle drive.
  
  Cattle Drive is an outdoor game suited for ages 4 to 9. Designate one area as Dodge City. Divide children into two groups: cows and cowboys. Each “cow” requires a two-child team–one for the head and one for the back section. Cowboys try to herd cows by “galloping” alongside them and saying, “git along little doggie.” Cows must then move with the cowboy and stay with the “herd.”
  "Whoa Doggies" stops a herd&'s movement, according to eldrbarry.net. Cowboys try to gather herds and drive them to Dodge. Game leaders can make the game more challenging by issuing several calls, including “stampede,” which causes cows to move away from the herd and run until tagged by a cowboy, and “mavericks,” which requires unescorted cows to reverse themselves—tails become heads—and leave the herd.

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