Hobbies And Interests
Baby Chicks
Baby Chicks is a simple color matching game for children age 3 and up. Two to four players try to match colors of cards and dice to collect chicks for their nests.
Thomas Count Your Cars
Take advantage of your child's love of trains to teach her about colors. This Thomas the Tank Engine themed game uses colored cards and freight cars to teach children basic color recognition and counting skills. The player who collects the most freight cars wins. Thomas Count Your Cars can be played by two to four players age 4 and up.
Nacho Loco
In the card game Nacho Loco, players try to get rid of all of their cards before any other player by matching colors on triangular cards to other cards on the table. Players must also follow instructions on the cards to draw, play again or perform other actions. Nacho Loco is suitable for children 8 and up and accommodates two to six players.
Pig Tails
Roll dice to collect pig cards in Pig Tails. Collect 4 pig cards in each color to win. This game teaches color matching in addition to counting. Play with two to four players age 3 or older.
Flash Cards
Flash cards teach children basic skills like color, counting and shapes. To make flash cards more fun, turn it into a game by timing children to see how quickly they can answer the cards correctly.
Continuo
Continuo is a color matching game that uses cards. Players attempt to make the longest play, and thus score the most points, by placing colors adjacent to one another to form a chain. The game includes rules for one to five players and is appropriate for ages 5 and up.
Explore the Mystery of Color
Explore the Mystery of Color is a box that contains multiple activities for exploring color. Children age 5 and up can perform experiments that complement learning color facts and science. Children should be supervised by an adult when performing experiments.