While We Stay Home: Board Games for Kids


Our users recommend their favorite board games for kids.

We asked our community what are some of the big and small things that’s helping them get through these days. Here are the 5 board games recommendations.

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Hoot Owl Hoot — Cooperative Matching Game For Kids

Hurry little owls: In this color-coordinated matching game, players cooperate to help the owls fly back to their nest before the sun comes up. Help all the owls home before sunrise and everyone wins!

Age group: 3–8

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Outfoxed! A Cooperative Whodunit

Mrs. Plumpert’s prized pot pie has gone missing, and now it’s a chicken Chase to crack the case! In Outfoxed, you move around the board to gather clues, then use the special evidence Scanner to rule out suspects. You have to work together quickly because the guilty fox is high-tailing it towards the exit! Will you halt the hungry hooligan before it flies The coop or will you be Outfoxed?

Age group: 5–10

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Charades for Kids

The classic game of Charades — now designed especially for kids to play and enjoy! With three levels of clues, each card has one pictured clue, so no reading is required (although the combination of the picture and its corresponding word reinforces early reading skills). Younger players can act out a toothbrush, a cat or a bumblebee. Older children can read the simple words and phrases and act out actions like eating spaghetti or playing guitar! It’s great fun for the whole family as they try to guess the charade before time runs out!

Age group: 4+

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Sequence for Kids

Play a card from your hand, place your chip on a corresponding character on the board… When you have 4 in a row, it’s a SEQUENCE and you win! Use a UNICORN card to place your chip anywhere. Remove your opponent’s chip with a DRAGON card.

Age group: 4–8

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Spot It JR

Be on the lookout for creatures of the land, sky, and sea. Designed especially for ages 4 to 7, the Junior edition of the popular card game Spot it! has an adorable animal theme that kids love. This travel-friendly matching game can be played five different ways.

Age group: 4–7

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