We present to you the 5 most popular board games for 5 year olds. The following board games combine loads of fun and educational benefits and they’re great for your next family night!
Candy Land
Candy Land is one of the most famous and classic board games for kids. For generations, boys and girls have enjoyed Candy Land as one of their first board games.
This timeless board game features fun and colorful illustrations, bright colored cards and sweet destinations which children love to play with.
Players encounter all kinds of “delicious” surprises as they move their cute gingerbread man pawn around the path in a race to the castle.
In addition, Candy Land helps kids develop important skills such as color matching, decision making and turn taking.
- Age: 3+
- Players: 2-4
Trouble Game
Trouble Game is one of the most popular board games for 5 year olds by Hasbro.
In Trouble Game you pop into the racing, chasing game where everyone’s in Trouble. Set up your pegs and then hit the Pop-O-Matic die roller.
Depending on what you roll, you can move your pegs to the Start space, move your pegs forward – or watch other players move while you can’t.
Each of your pegs has to go all the way around the board to the finish space, but watch out – if another player’s peg lands on the same space as yours, your peg has to start over. The player who gets all 4 pegs into the Finish space wins.
- Age: 5+
- Players: 2-4
Zingo!
Zingo is the top selling junior game of Think Fun publisher. It’s a matching game that encourages pre-readers and early readers alike to match the pictures and words to their challenge cards.
The Zingo! Zinger dispenses tiles and fun as young minds quickly race to be the first player with a full card and yell “Zingo!”.
Both children and parents will enjoy playing this fantastic game for hours and will want to play it again and again. Furthermore preschoolers will be taught essential learning and social skills; image and word recognition, vocabulary, observation, perception, concentration, memory.
- Age: 4+
- Players: 2+
Yeti in my Spaghetti
The game consists of three peculiar kinds of objects; 30 noodles, one bowl and a yeti! In order to win you must carefully remove noodles without being the one to let the Yeti fall in the bowl.
Yeti in my Spaghetti provides loads of fun for varied aged groups. It’s a quick, easy, simple game that everyone can play and have fun with.
What is more, this absolutely wacky board game teaches kids strategy and motor skills.
- Age: 4+
- Players: 2+
Charades for Kids
Charades for Kids is designed especially for kids to play and enjoy! With three levels of clues, kids of all ages can participate.
Each card has a clue with a picture, 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 bumble bee!
Older children can read the simple words and phrases and act out actions like eating spaghetti or playing guitar! This game is great for the whole family to play together as they try to guess the charade before time runs out.
- Age: 4+
- Players: 3+
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