Do you have hard time keeping your children off of the screen? Unfortunately, raising children in this electronic age is not as easy as it used to be in generations past. However, there is hope even for our children. It just requires more of us, parents, to be consistent and diligent with how much screen time we allow in our home.
One of the perfect screen-free activities is incorporating board games into your days. There is nothing like interacting with your children while playing a game. Following please find a list of games that have long been many children’s favorites. You never know, they may become your children’s favorites too!
10 Favorite Board Games for Younger Children
1. Candy Land
This game makes you travel through “Candy Land” on the colored spaces path to be the first player to reach the Candy Castle. It is a very colorful game ready to delight any child.
2. The Game of Life
In the Game of Life, players travel through their lives: they go to college, start working, have family, and finally retire. The player with most money at the end of the game wins. In the words of one of The Game of Life fans, “We really loved this game when we were little. Spinning the wheel made it seems like the best game ever!”
3. Sorry
The objective of this game is to be the first player to get your pawns “home” after running around the board. There are a number of variants of this game: cards or dice, numbers or pictures, square or round, small or giant. No matter which version you choose, you will not be disappointed.
4. Guess Who?
In “Guess Who?” each player selects a card. Players then ask questions alternatively to determine which card the other one selected.
5. Connect 4
If you have ever played tick-tack-toe, Connect 4 will be an easy transition for you. The objective of this game is to form a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of four with your own color of tokens. The first player who achieves this wins.
6. Battleship
The objective of “Battleship” is to sink the other player’s ships before they sink yours. This is an awesome strategic game for both young and older players.
7. Junior Pictionary
“Junior Pictionary” is a game of two teams. Each team draws pictures of words they choose from a stack of cards. The team that guesses more pictures correct reaches Finish first and is crowned the winner.
8. Apples to Apples
The objective of this game is to match nouns to adjectives. Each player submits a card and the judge picks the best match. The player who collects the most best-matched cards wins the game.
9. Monopoly Junior
Monopoly Junior is a simplified version of the actual Monopoly game. The players travel through the Monopoly Town, they land on Ice Cream Parlor, the Zoo, or the Skate Park buying properties and collecting rent.
10. Junior Scrabble
This version of Scrabble offers two possible games: one side of the board allows the players match letters to form words; the other side gives you an opportunity to build your own words.
