The Best Family Games for Christmas
- Learning Resources Posted On Oct 17, 2022 | Seasonal Fun
Looking for a new family game to keep everyone engaged and having fun? Here are the best family board games for Christmas 2021 from Learning Resources. You’ll find educational games for 3 year olds and up, that will have everyone laughing and learning this Christmas!
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The best family games for Christmas
Dice of Fury
(Ages 7+)
Dice of Fury is a fast-paced maths game that’s great for building mental maths fluency in the through exciting game play. Ideal for 2–4 players, Dice of Fury has two levels of difficulty, and is the fun way to encourage numeracy and mental agility as players compete to complete maths challenges.
Sum Swamp™
(Ages 5+)
The Sum Swamp™ maths board game is a fun and exciting way to build maths fluency as children practise addition and subtraction to get to the other side of the swamp. Suitable for 2–4 players, it’s a great way to keep kids engaged and learning over Christmas, and at family games night during the year.
Sneaky, Snacky, Squirrel Game!® Special Edition
(Ages 3+)
This best-selling preschool strategy game is available in a special edition collectable version. For a decade, the Sneaky Snacky Squirrel Game® has been a family games night favourite, helping preschoolers practise counting, colour-matching and fine motor skills. This version includes golden acorns, and a fun fuzzy Squirrel Squeezer. Because there’s no reading required, this game is ideal for children as young as age 3.
The Playfoam® Game
(Ages 5+)
The Playfoam® Game is the exciting squishy sculpting kid-friendly game that’s fun for the entire family. Teams take turns to draw a clue card featuring a shape and get sculpting before time runs out, while other players attempt to guess the shape. Ideal for 4 or more players.
Recordable Answer Buzzers (Set of 4)
(Ages 3+)
Add some game show fun to family games night with the Recordable Answer Buzzers from Learning Resources. Recording with these buzzers is easy — just tap the button, record your sound, tap it again, and play it back! Record your voice, sounds, music, and messages. Each recordable answer buzzer can hold up to 7 seconds of sound at once, from a snippet of a song to a silly sound and more. The 4 fun colours make them easy to tell apart. Each buzzer measures 9cm in diameter and requires 2 AAA batteries (not included).
Money Bags™ A Coin Value Board Game
(Ages 5+)
Develop coin value recognition and early financial awareness with the engaging Money Bags™ game where players earn money as they move around the board completing common household chores. It’s a fun way to build early coin value recognition and financial awareness. It also helps children build money-themed equivalency skills. Suitable for 2–4 players.
tacklingadd&subtract Student Set
(Ages 5+)
tacklingadd&subtract is the fun cards game to boost mental maths fluency in children aged 5+. This play-based approach helps to build number sense and confidence in early years maths concepts through exciting game play. Use this game to help children master number bonds 10, 20, and 100, and learn how to apply this knowledge to increasingly difficult addition and subtraction calculations.
Math Scramble
(Ages 5+)
Shake up your child’s maths skills with Math Scramble, the exciting maths game developed to boost mental maths fluency in addition and subtraction. Shake the egg, scatter out the number tiles, and build and solve simple maths problems. The first player to play all of their tiles wins the game! Suitable for 1–4 players.
The best family games for Christmas
Dice of Fury
Ages: 7+
Dice of Fury is a fast-based maths game that’s great for building confidence and mental maths fluency through exciting challenges. Because it’s suitable for 2-4 players, it’s ideal for family games night. Dice of Fury has two levels of difficulty, so it’ll be a great addition to your fun family Christmas games for all ages that you’ll enjoy for years!
Magnetic Space Sudoku
Ages: 4-8
This fun family game is ideal for keeping children aged 4+ occupied over the holidays or on a long journey. There are 72 sudoku puzzles that help build early maths, logic, and critical thinking skills through play. The magnetic board and game pieces mean children can solve puzzles in the car, at the kitchen table, and anywhere in between! The puzzles increase in difficulty, which means kids can keep playing as they grow and learn.
Kanoodle® Head-to-Head
Ages: 7-11
Challenge another player to this 2-person Kanoodle battle while encouraging problem-solving, critical thinking, and spatial reasoning skills. This portable logic puzzle game includes 80 logical thinking puzzles from basic to deviously difficult. To play, slide a challenge card into the board, place the pieces shown, then race to fit the remaining pieces—before your buddy does. Press the button to launch your opponent’s pieces for the ultimate checkmate.
Sum Swamp™ Addition & Subtraction Game
Ages: 5–10
The best-selling Sum Swamp maths board game is a fun and exciting way to build maths fluency as children practise addition and subtraction to get to the other side of the swamp. Suitable for 2-4 players, it’s a great way to keep kids engaged and learning through fun maths challenges.
Sneaky, Snacky, Squirrel Game!® Special Edition
Ages: 3-7
Looking for Christmas family games for kids that preschoolers can play? There’s no reading needed with this special edition of our best-selling preschool game, and it’s ideal for children as young as age 3. It’s easy to get started and will keep young imaginations engaged and having fun! For over a decade, the Sneaky Snacky Squirrel Game has helped preschoolers practise counting, colour-matching and fine motor skills. This version includes golden acorns, and a fun fuzzy Squirrel Squeezer.
iTrax™ Critical Thinking Game
Ages: 6-10
iTrax is a fast-paced game designed to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills in primary learners. Each player starts with a variety of game pieces featuring different colours and lengths. Turn over a challenge card and watch the players race to recreate the correct path on the challenge card with their own pieces. Each challenge card features a variety of paths, the correct one with a beginning and end along with some red-herrings. Children must first identify the correct path before recreating it in order to avoid creating an incorrect path with their pieces.
Oodles of Aliens!™ Sorting Saucer
Ages: 4-8
Add some out-of-this-world fun to grouping and sorting games, patterning activities, colour recognition, and fine motor skills activities with the Oodles of Aliens!™ Sorting Saucer game. Great for playing in the classroom or at home, this colourful game set includes a 2-piece spaceship with sorting trays, popper top with colour and number dice, Tri-Grip Tong, 30 colourful, squishy, alien counters, and a game board.
The Playfoam® Game
Ages: 5-9
How fast can you use Playfoam® to squish, squash and sculpt a shape in this race against the clock game? The Playfoam® Game is the exciting squishy sculpting kid-friendly game that’s fun for the entire family. Teams take turns to draw a card featuring a shape and get sculpting before time runs out, while other players attempt to guess the shape. Sculpt using two colours of Playfoam: blue and green. Includes 200 kid-friendly clues on 100 double-sided, durable cards.
Pocket Money Bingo
Ages: 5-9
Engage young children with this easy-to-play game that will encourage a sense of financial awareness from an early age. The realistic looking play money will extend the learning into coin recognition too. This fun game for ages 5+ has two levels of play, and encourages coin recognition, financial awareness, and money equivalency skills. It’s easy to set up, and suitable for 2-4 players.
Answer Buzzers
Ages: 3+
Add some game show excitement to Christmas family games with Team Answer Buzzers. This set comes with 8 game buzzers: 4 for the red team, and 4 for the blue team. Once you've settled on teams for classroom game shows or at-home game nights, you'll always know who's buzzing in because each team’s buzzers make unique sounds that are loud, clear, and easy to tell apart.
Or try the Farmyard Answer Buzzers! This fun set of 4 game buzzers make fun sounds that will have everyone laughing and having fun!
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