Boys love competitive physical challenges, and I like game that incorporate these characteristics because while they suit that boyish need to conquer and dominate, they’re still fairly mild and safe. Life with boys is always interesting! Rhino Hero is a fun way to develop tactile/manual precision skills in a competitive, suspense-filled way. The game consists […]
Strategy Games
I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in the era of the original Nintendo, but games that resemble Tetris in any way really call to me. Our whole family loves puzzles and Tetris, and Miyabi is a really fun and beautiful game with similar shape-manipulation elements. What it also has is a beautiful […]
We are long-time Catan fans. Catan was actually the first strategy game I ever remember playing as a college student. Before that, all I ever played were card games, and I loved the strategy and social nature of Catan! We played it for years and enjoyed many of the expansions, and I was thrilled to […]
Nature themed games are some of my favorites for gameschooling. They are a wonderful supplement to a holistic, curiosity led, interest driven way of studying science out in the natural world through observation and experience. Bosk is a beautiful game about trees, our favorite element of nature. I’m a native Oregonian and am also a […]
My twins are 4 and LOVE LOVE LOVE to play games. Santa brought them something special this Christmas: a race-car themed, color matching, early strategy game called Monza. Players choose one of the 6 colored wooden car playing pieces to race each other around the track. The cars line up on the starting line, and […]
We’re a bunch of Harry Potter fanatics around here…we’ve all taken the Pottermore Sorting and Patronus Quizzes, read the books independently and together, listened on audio, watched the movies, dressed up as its characters for Halloween…so it was high time we played a Harry Potter board game! Battle for the Castle is superbly congruous with […]
Two-player games are AWESOME. With six boy, sometimes more is NOT merrier… 2 player games keep the interpersonal skills at a manageable level, and it’s fun for just two of my boys to get to spend some quality time together. Everybody takes turns playing though, this game gets A TON of mileage! It’s also one […]
Games are such great mind-food for children’s imaginations, and the thing I really love about games is that they require active work from the brain. Many games give children an opportunity to put themselves into a fantastical world. Games have have been an invaluable gameschooling tool and have provided our family with so much material […]
Gnoming-A-Round is another new game from our favorite, Grandpa Beck! And if you missed my Nuts About Mutts review, don’t forget to pick these two up for stocking stuffers! Purchase Nuts About Mutts for 50% off if you buy Gnoming-A-Round together on Amazon. Use the code NEWGAMES50 at check out. :) You won’t want to miss either […]
We use games for a lot of our curriculum, but we also play just for fun, and the thing is…there really isn’t any difference. Learning is learning, and learning is ALWAYS during game play with kids. Dr. Eureka is a fast and fun dexterity/logic game where players each have 3 test tubes with 2 […]
