8 Educational Board games to make homeschooling easier

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!

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+.

Kids all seem to go through a phase of loving trivia, and if you’ve got kids who want to know about the tallest, biggest and weirdest things in nature, they’ll enjoy the book Once in a Blue Moon by Emily Hawkins.

The book explores wonders of astronomy, meteorology, big trees, weird animals, volcanoes and more to show off the rarest events and phenomena in the natural world.

Kids ages 7-10 will learn about the lake (Lake Hillier, on an island off Australia) that has water that’s bubblegum pink, the world’s deepst came (Veryovkina Cave in the country of Georgia) and the world’s biggest tree, a banyan in southeast India with a canopy that covers more than five acres!

Readers will learn what a blue moon is, how supernovas happen and about Haley’s comet and solar eclipses, among other space-related phenomena. Closer to home they’ll learn about stinky flowers, bleeding trees, glowing fungi and pizzly bears.

There’s content about times when it’s rained frogs (and when frogs have exploded en masse), when snow made giant snowballs all by itself and how clouds stack on themselves like pancakes. The book also explores ball lightning, sun dogs, St. Elmo’s fire and more.

I love books like this and I know kids do, too. There’s so much weird and wonderful about our world and even as adults we don’t know about all of these things. I found it fun to learn, for example, that there’s a volcano on the island of Java that not only sends out blue flames from vents near its crater, it’s also home to an acidic lake.

Illustrations by Vlad Stankovic illuminate these weird natural wonders and are sure to get kids interested in learning more about some of these remarkable animals, plants, rock formations and more.

About the book: 80 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $30.

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