Looking for an effective way to get your children out from behind the screen and get them involved in some real face-to-face fun? Have you tried kids board games? You might be surprised by how much your kids will love to play with them! According to psychologists, the lack of technology required to play a board game make them special.
Kids board games are activities that make for a perfect family or game night. They can be designed for two players, four players or more, and can be educational, mind-benders or just plain silly. Most importantly, board games provides loads of fun. Here is a list of some of the benefits your children can enjoy playing with kids board games.
Spending Time Together
One of the main benefits of board games is the time spent together. The entire family can play board games to spend quality time with each other. Simply said, board games provide an opportunity for kids to interact with their families in a positive way.
Learn Decision Making
Board games help kids develop decision-making skills. For example, a strategy-based board game requires a player to make quick but effective moves, which improve their decision-making skills. With kids board games, players have to think critically on a very high level, rather than just making a move randomly. Decision-making skill learned through board games can be very important the children in the real world.
Learn How to Achieve Goals
Some of the main benefits of playing with board games are exactly the kind of things an individual needs to achieve a goal. For example, while playing a board game, children learn how to recruit allies, how to predict the opponent's strategies and how to make a move. All these things help children to develop a mindset to accomplish their goals.
Enhance Problem Solving Approach
Problem-solving skills are important in all areas of life. Board games encourage kids to solve real problems in real-life situations by requiring them to analyze a problem, figure out all its elements and then find a workable solution.
Learn How to Be a Good Loser
Board games also teach kids important lessons about playing fair. For children who have low frustration tolerance, losing is really difficult for them. Allowing these kids to break the rules at first can make the game more tolerable and hence, more fun for them. But your goal should be to purposely play by the rules and encourage your kid to use coping skills and promote resilience when things don't go the way they are supposed to go.
There are a number of board games for kids out there, which makes difficult knowing where to start. Here are some suggestions you may want to consider.
Monopoly
With the Monopoly board game, kids learn the value of property ownership, assets, and general wheeling and dealing. Players have to learn to navigate the perils of losses and taxes when an opponent arrives, as well as the advantages of gaining income by selling land. To play Monopoly, the players need to simply roll the dice and move that number of spaces on the board. If a player lands on a property that hasn't been purchased, that player has the opportunity to build wealth and purchase it. If a player owns all the spaces within a specific colour group, that player is then able to build houses and hotels on their property, which will lead them to gain even more wealth if an opponent lands on that property. Other actions, such as collect income, pay taxes or go to jail are some of the other forms of penalties that player are subjected to the world of Monopoly.
Cranium
This is a great game for all ages of kids. In Cranium, up to four teams compete to reach the finish line first by completing tasks related to wordplay, sculpting, puzzle-solving or acting, depending on which space you land on. Some variants of the game add special spaces that allow players to move at twice their normal speed and random dice rolls that add some interest to the game. But the real fun is in correctly guessing that a teammate is acting out being a gorilla, or watching a rival team completely fail to name a country beginning with B before the time runs out.
Labyrinth