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8 Educational Board games to make homeschooling easier

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Whether you are a parent of kids who are homeschooled or a parent of kids in quarantine, learning has to go ahead even with coronavirus looming around the corners.

Get your children off their screens and onto a fun board game with the added perk of family time and education! An excellent lesson plan for when kids are getting bored of the same old written worksheets, while still teaching them important life skills, ranging from maths to social skills.

We’ve rounded up 10 educational board games you can purchase from Amazon to have them delivered to your door – even better!

  1. Pizza Fraction Fun Game

 

 

This board game teaches kids to identify fractions, match equivalent fractions, and perform fraction addition and subtraction. Ideal for ages 6+ with different levels of difficulty.

2.  Coin Value Game

 

This board game teaches kids the value of coins through collecting, counting, and exchanging them. Ideal for ages 7+ with 2-4 players.

3. The Entrepreneur Game

 

This board game teaches math, critical thinking, decision-making, budgeting, investing, branding, and more. Ideal for ages 10+.

4. Social Skills Game

 

This board game teaches social skills in the community. Ideal for ages 5+.

5. Labyrinth Board Game

This board game teaches cause and effect, planning, association, recognition, and taking turns. Ideal for kids 6 and up.

6. Pig in Pants Board Game

 

This board game teaches strategic thinking. Ideal for ages 4+.

7. Brain Freeze Board Game

 

This board game teaches strategic thinking, memory, deduction and logic. Ideal for ages 5+.

8. Explore the World Board Game

 

This board game teaches facts about the world. Ideal for ages 7+.

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Spring Outdoor Activities for Kids

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I hope if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere that it’s getting warm enough where you live to add in some outdoor activities with the kids. It’s easy to do a lot of learning outside when the weather is nice; my daughter has a fond memory of doing long division in sidewalk chalk at her school. But if you need some more specific ideas, here are some fun and educational spring outdoor activities for kids to do at home or at school.

Gather some glass bottles, rocks and other natural materials to make a garden xylophone with these instructions from The Moments at Home. This looks so fun, and you can use this idea to make musical instruments with other objects you find around the home/classroom/playground too. 

This post from Child’s Play ABC has a lot of great outdoor learning ideas for kids, but the one I wanted to highlight is going on a rainbow scavenger hunt. Kids can collect things of different colors and see if they can make a rainbow (or just sort things by color). Check out more ideas for scavenger hunts.

Another good activity to do with things you collect from outdoors is making natural paint brushes. Get the instructions from Messy Little Monster, and of course you can test them out by painting outside, too.

Speaking of art, have you ever made paint from dandelions? (I dyed yarn with dandelions once, and it was a lot of fun.) Learn how from Little Cooks Reading Books, and then you can use your natural paintbrushes along with natural paint!

You can also paint with mud, like in this post from There’s Just One Mommy. Or make an outdoor, garden themed sensory bin with real dirt like this one from Mess for Less.

Or kids can gather materials to help them build their own nests as they learn about how birds and other animals build nests. The Crazy Outdoor Mama has a printable and post that will help.

What activities do you love to do with kids when it’s nice outside?