Most Preschool aged games work on gross motor and fine motor skills, language development, cognitive learning, social- emotional skills, cooperation, taking turns, communication, and good sportsmanship. Games allow kids to play, learn, explore, and connect in meaningful ways.
Lemonade Shake up
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Can you and your Lemonade Stand team fill the quarter jar at your lemonade stand before you serve five customers sour lemons? Work together, roll the dice and give Lemonade Shake Up! a try!
Educational Focuses: Decision making, recipe following, money, counting, good sportsmanship, strategy, cooperation, simple math, and following directions.
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Brain Train
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Solve the Brain train puzzle by putting the train together so that the colors and shapes are in the right order! With puzzles appropriate for players as young as three, Brain Train is a great way to kickstart visual perception and problem solving skills early!
Educational Focuses: Flexible thinking, planning, problem solving, spatial insight, and visual perception.
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Where's Mr. Wolf
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Work together with your fellow farmers to get all of the farm animals back into the barn before Mr. Wolf gets to the barnyard! Continue adding farm animals to the right barns and don’t forget to ask Where’s Mr Wolf? to make sure you all win!
Educational Focuses: Memory, cooperation, social play, and multidimensional thinking.
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Karuba Junior
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Work with your fellow adventurers to find all of the treasures before the pirates raid the island. Strategically place the path tiles to get to all of the treasures while avoiding the tigers and other perils of the jungle in Karuba Junior!
Educational Focuses: Cooperative, teamwork, tile placement, puzzle, and strategic thinking.
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Duck Duck Dance
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Roll the four duckie dice to get a fun new dance and then dance away! Play cooperatively and take turns rolling for the newest and hottest Duck Duck Dance to get those wiggles out!
Educational Focuses: Fine motor skills, gross motor skills, language, cognitive skills, social skills, emotional skills, and action & dexterity.
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Animal Upon Animal
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Will you be the first player to stack all of your animals on the back of the crocodile? Roll the dice and see if you’re stacking one animal, two animals, handing an animal away, or placing an animal in front or behind the crocodile! Then carefully stack Animal Upon Animal until all of your animals are gone!
Educational Focuses: 3D visualization, hand-eye coordination, precise motor skills, turn taking, good sportsmanship, and animal recognition (sounds).
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Orchard
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Work with your fellow orchardists to harvest all of the fruit in your Orchard before the pesky crows can get to it.
Educational Focuses: Fruit, color, and shape recognition, good sportsmanship, imagination, turn taking, hand- eye coordination, and teamwork.
Great for lessons dealing with plants, animals, & gardens.
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Little Garden
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Gardener Gabriel is all ready for springtime! He needs some help planting, watering and weeding his patches though, especially if he’s going to be able to raise all of his strawberries, carrots, and tulips before Molly Mole manages to finish building her mole hill and ruin everything! Can you work together with your favorite gardeners to help Gabriel tend his Little Garden?
Educational Focuses: Introduction to complexities in nature, team play, how a garden grows, animal habitats & characteristics, free play, and introduction to seasons & plants.
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Catch a falling star
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Can you be the first player to play all of their rays of light in Catch a Falling Star? On each player’s turn they will attempt to add a ray of light to the Star to help relight the extinguished star! Some of the rays are magnetized and easy to place, while others are not magnetized and will require more focus to place. Place all of your rays before your opponents and you’ll be the winner of Catch a Falling Star!
Educational Focuses: Turn-taking, action, dexterity, and small motor skills.
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happy bunny
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Carrots are harvested multiple times between spring and fall. In Happy Bunny your goal is to help Bunny pick the very best carrots for his family. Players are going to roll the die and move to the next available space of that color. They will then pull the number of carrots that are on the space you ended on. All carrots with a bite go to the bunny, all carrots without a bite go to the farmer. At the end of the game if the bunny has the longer line of carrots (the tastiest bunch) then you win. But if the farmer has the longer line you lose.
Educational Focuses: Cooperation, teamwork, turn taking, color & number recognition, good sportsmanship, and counting.
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Count Your Chickens
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Can you and your team help Mama Cluck return all of her chicks to the coup before she runs out of space on her walk? Take turns working together to gather all of the babies up and return them to their home. To be sure that you return all forty of them, make sure to Count Your Chickens.
Educational Focuses: Counting, number sets, turn taking, cooperation, visual recognition, following directions, and social skills.
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Set Junior
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How quickly can you decide if the tiles are all the same or all different and make a Set? With two simplified ways to play this classic game, younger players will have no trouble competing with even the most experienced players in Set Junior!
Educational Focuses: Visual perception, pattern & color recognition, number recognition, logic & reasoning, right brain & left brain functions, memory, analytical skills, memory, higher order thinking, processing speed, and problem solving.
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Feed The Woozle
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The Woozle is so hungry! But he needs silly snacks and will only eat them if you can bring them to him in one of his favorite silly movements! But don’t drop his snack on your way to Feed the Woozle!
Educational Focuses: Dexterity, gross motor skills, balance, body awareness, counting, language development, movement, self regulation, impulse suppression, restrict and control movement, taking turns, making choices, and following directions and steps.
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Monza
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Can you think ahead to get ahead in this color-recognition racing game? Named for the Famous Italian Grand Prix hosting city, Monza, players in this game roll dice and plan their routes to race to the finish!
Educational Focuses: Tactile thinking, color recognition, sequencing, critical thinking, planning, taking turns, good sportsmanship.
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My Very First Animal Upon Animal
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Can you help the farmer sort his animals into the right pastures? The cows go with the cows, the pigs with the pigs and the chickens with the chickens! But if there’s already one animal in the pasture you’ll have to stack its partner on top of it in My Very First Animal Upon Animal!
Educational Focuses: Dexterity, Hand- eye coordination, cooperation, good sportsmanship, animal recognition, early rule understanding, and introduction to organized play.
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Too Many Monkeys
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Poor Primo just wants to get some sleep! Can you help get the monkeys all lined up and get Primo back to bed in Too Many Monkeys? And send that Elephant home!
Educational Focuses: Number sense, Deduction, Turn-taking, and Good Sportsmanship.
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Hisss
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Can you make the longest snake? Can you make the most colorful snake? Can you make the most snakes? Then get to Hisssing! Players compete to complete the colorful snakes in this vibrant game! The player with the most snakes in their snake pit when the last card is drawn wins!
Educational Focuses: Color recognition, logic, pattern recognition, and basic counting skills.
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Robot Turtles
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Foundations of coding at a young age. Kids will have a blast using programming cards to maneuver the Robot Turtle around the game board and reach the sparkling gem! Will you be the first one to run your program bug-free and collect the sparkling gem?
Educational Focuses: Correcting bugs in programing, strategic planning, rotation, multi step problem solving, computational thinking, subroutines & loops.
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Dragon's Breath
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You’ve found them… shiny stones encased in ice. Your goal is to collect as many of the shiny stones as you can, but to do so the ring of ice will have to be melted. Carefully choose the gem you feel will provide you with the most sparkling stones that turn, then carefully remove the ice ring that melted and watch the jewels cascade down!
Educational Focuses: Fantasy, action & dexterity, color recognition, counting, decision making, good sportsmanship, and simple rules.
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Hoot Owl Hoot!
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Play together with your group to get all of the baby owls home to their nest before sunrise in Hoot Owl Hoot from Peaceable Kingdom!
Educational Focuses: Nocturnal creatures, planning ahead, day vs. night, animal habitats, color recognition, self esteem, early strategic skills, cooperation, turn taking, strategic thinking, social skills, Astronomy (day, night, stars), flying creatures, simple decision making, following directions, communication, good sportsmanship.
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Fishing Day
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Little anglers, grab your lucky fishing rods and get ready to conquer five fishing challenges before your opponents! You’ll have to be quick and you’ll have to plan ahead to win this Fishing Day!
Educational Focuses: Fine motor skills, focus & attention, social play, dexterity, color & shape recognition, deduction, and counting.
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Bye, Bye Mr. Fox!
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A sly and cunning fox has snuck into the hen house to steal the eggs. You're going to have to work together to help the hens collect 3 eggs in each house before Mr. Fox steals them all.
Educational Focuses: Fine motor skills, focus & attention, social play, cooperation, and strategy.
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The Rainbow Fish Share and Sparkle Game
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Work together to beautify all of the fish in the ocean! Just like in the classic children's’ book Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister you each play as a Rainbow Fish and work together to share beautiful scales and fill in each fish!
Educational Focuses: Color recognition, Counting, teamwork, sharing, and planning.
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Here, Fishy, Fishy!
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Roll the die, fish for the matching sea creature, and finish your puzzle. Here Fishy, Fishy! Is fun, interactive, and approved by kids ages 2+.
Educational Focuses: Free play, early understanding of game rules, hand-eye coordination, color recognition, shapes & visual perception.
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Balance Beans
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Balance Beans is a cute problem solving and deductive reasoning game that incorporates elementary algebra and basic Physics into a series of single-player logic problems designed for players ages 5+. Imagine the seesaw as a leaver with a fulcrum in the center and to balance it you must place and move the beans around. You can experiment with different sizes and placement of the beans thus learning about mass, force, and weight as you aim to balance the seesaw thus creating an algorithm. At the same time, you’re learning to balance equations (2+2 and 3+1 both equal 4).
Educational Focuses: Logic, problem solving, math, elementary algebra, and fundamental principles of physics.
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Zimbbos!
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Zimbbos!’ Circus Animals are all ready to build the most impressive pyramid ever! Can you help them get into the right order and balance all the way to the top? Roll the dice to find out how many elephants to stack this turn. Be the player who stacks the tenth elephant to win at Zimbbos!
Educational Focuses: Counting, number recognition, color recognition, manual dexterity, balance, and turn taking.
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My First Castle Panic
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The goblins are on the loose and preparing to rush the castle. Put on your armour, review your colors and shapes and prepare to defend the castle. Your goal is to protect the castle and rid the kingdom of the threat. Keep in mind that your ability to communicate and strategically plan will work in your favor.
Educational Focuses: Colors, shapes, problem solving, turn taking, teamwork, and good sportsmanship.
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First Orchard
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In First Orchard the team works together to gather all of the fruit before the Raven can get to it! Take turns rolling the dice and adding fruit of that color to the basket before the Raven makes it down the garden path!
Educational Focuses: Taking turns, working together, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, colors, fruit, and good sportsmanship
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Monster Match
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How fast can you find a monster with One Eye? One with Five Legs? Or even with Three Arms? In Monster Match you and your friends take turns rolling dice that tell you which attributes will fit your Monster Match. But remember that the winner is determined at the end of the game by who has the most donuts, so sometimes taking one extra second can make a difference!
Educational Focuses: Addition, visual perception, processing speed, counting, taking turns, dexterity, and good sportsmanship.
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The Color Monster
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Sometimes it's really hard for The Color Monster to explain exactly how he’s feeling. In The Color Monster, players work together using colors and personal stories to help their friend figure out how he’s been feeling all day. Once they identify a feeling, they choose a jar to put it in. If it matches, perfect! But if not, they can try again until they find the right match! Just be careful not to have too many jumbled jars, they make everything confusing!
Educational Focuses: Colors, emotions, communication, teamwork, memory, turn-taking, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, and empathy.
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Our friends at Devir have made some wonderful educational resources to pair with The Color Monster game.
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Zingo! 123
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In Zingo! 1-2-3, players must match their numbered tiles to their corresponding challenge card. The first player with a full card wins the game by yelling “Zingo!”
Educational Focuses: Number sense, counting, matching, fine motor skills, observation & perception, concentration & memory, word & language skills, reading & comprehension, following instructions, taking turns, and good sportsmanship.
Check out our lesson plan below.
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Heads Talk Tails Walk
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Heads Talk Tails Walk is a fun, energy-burning matching game where you work together to make complete animals by matching their heads with their bodies! But when you guess wrong, you and all of your cohorts take a lap walking like the animal whose body you found and talking like the animal whose head you found! So you could end up stomping like a T-Rex and bokking like a Chicken or hopping like a Frog and meowing like a Cat!
Educational Focuses: Teamwork, communication, memory, deduction, animal recognition, animal sounds, visual perception & reasoning, concentration, fine motor skills, dexterity, and creativity.
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Three Little Piggies Deluxe
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"Once upon a time...
Can you help these three smart pigs build their houses? Can you set them up so that the pigs can play outside? If you spot the wolf can you help the pigs stay safe inside their houses? Three Little Piggies is a perfect brain game for young children." Excerpt from Smart Toys & Games Educational Focuses: Concentration, deduction, logic, planning, hand-eye coordination, dexterity, focus, problem solving, and spatial insight.
Not to mention lessons about folklore, fables, and nursery rhymes.
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Concept Kids
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In Concept Kids, you take turns giving hints and guessing which animal is on the secret card! With tons of ways to describe any animal, including where they live, what color they are, and even what they eat, you’ll have tons of fun in either role!
Educational Focuses: Memory, deduction, animal characteristics, animal habitats, teamwork, creativity, fine motor skills, communication, and discovery of the animal world.
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Acorn Soup
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Making Acorn Soup is easy as 1-2-3! The round box (bowl) and the wooden spoon and ingredients are perfect for younger players. The game contains simple recipe cards that teach toddlers to identify ingredients, to count numbers of ingredients, and to play together!
Educational Focuses: Counting & sorting, naming & matching, pretend play, pre-reading, language development, following directions, fine motor skills, order of process (following recipe directions), balancing, creative thinking, hand-eye coordination, imagination, number recognition, matching.
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Zingo! Sight Words
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Zingo! Sight Words combines bingo, with learning new sight words! The first player with a full card wins by yelling "Zingo!"
Educational Focuses: Sight word recognition, vocabulary, matching, fine motor skills, observation & perception, concentration & memory, word & language skills, spelling, reading & comprehension, following instructions, taking turns, and good sportsmanship.
Check out our lesson plan below!
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Unicorn Glitterluck
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Play as beautiful unicorns racing from the thundercloud to the sun in Unicorn Glitterluck!! Collect sparkling gems along the way to keep you and your friends safe and then count up all your gems at the end to determine who wins this time!
Educational Connections: Turn taking, good sportsmanship, early understanding of rules, and counting.
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