25 Games to Teach Elementary Skills

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Games are a daily occurance in our home. They’re fun. They’re engaging. They’re relational and they’re educational. Games are a WIN WIN and a welcomed rescue to table time. Here’s a few we’ve loved, preschool through elementary.

  • BINGO (number recognition 1-75)

  • Matching/Concentration (similarities and differences, short-term memory, working memory)

  • War - with a deck of cards (matching quantity, more than, less than)

  • Dominoes (matching similarities, quantity recognition 1-6, counting 1-6)

  • Scrabble Junior (letter recognition, introductory phonics, initial consonant sounds, spelling)

  • Uncle Wiggly (number recognition 1-100, counting)

  • Guess Who? (critical thinking, problem solving)

  • Rush Hour Traffic Jam Logic Game (thinking skills by ThinkFun)

  • Hi-Ho Cherry-O (early counting, addition and subtraction concepts)

  • Barrel of Monkeys (GREAT for motor skills!)

  • Busy Bee (thinking skills, addition, an oldie but goodie introduced to us by great-grandma)

  • Rivers, Roads, and Rails (thinking skills, another oldie by goodie)

  • World and US map floor puzzles (geography)

  • Scrabble Sentence Game for Juniors (sentence structure, spelling)

  • Scrabble Sentence Cube Game (sentence structure, spelling)

  • Learning Resources Pizza Fraction Fun (fractions)

  • Oreo Matching Middles (shape matching)

  • Hopscotch (great for motor skills)

  • Simon Says (listening and following directions)

  • Checkers (thinking skills)

  • Hail to the Chief (history)

  • RACK-O (counting 1-60, more than, less than)

  • Yahtzee (quantity recognition, addition, multiplication)

  • Even Steven’s Odd (counting, sequencing, number patterns, addition, and multiplication)

  • Somebody Game (human body game)