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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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Knit a Cozy Sweater with Lots of Options

If you’re looking for a sweater knitting pattern that uses up some of your stash and allows you to make just the sweater you want, the Marlina Rib by Shay Johson might be just the thing.

It’s worked with two strands of fingering weight yarn held together to make a DK weight gauge, so you can use the same two yarns throughout or change one or both regularly for an even more colorful look.

The pattern has options to make it either a crewneck or a henley style with buttons, tapered or relaxed sleeves, and a straight hemline or a split hem with buttons (which sounds so cute if you do the henley with split hem and match the buttons on both parts).

It’s also knit from the top down so you can make the body and the sleeves as long as you want. There are 10 sizes available in the pattern, with a chest circumference ranging from 32 to 68 inches, or 81.5 to 172.5 cm. It’s meant to be worn with 4-6 inches/10-15 cm of positive ease at the chest.

The pattern page on Ravelry includes tons of measurements and yardage estimates so you can make sure you’ll get a good fit for your body before you even buy the pattern. Shay also shows a few variations of the sweater so you can see how different options look before you decide how you want to put them together.

The stitch pattern is 1×2 ribbing, which is really easy to do and gives a look almost like fisherman’s rib that’s relaxed and easy to wear.

This sweater looks like a great option for people who are somewhat new to sweater knitting or those who love to have lots of customization options (because it’s like getting multiple sweater patterns in one!).

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern for yourself at Ravelry.

[Photo: Shay Johnson]