What Kids Really Learn During Family Game Night

Dr. Courtney Tolinski and her husband, Scott, talk all things family game night. They discuss:

• How games are legitimate learning tools to foster cognitive, academic, executive functioning and social skills. 
• The sense of structure and routine for your family that game nights provide, all while building connection. 
• Game ideas for all different phases of development - preschool through adolescence. 
• What to do when game nights go wrong (meltdowns, cheating and more). 
• How to make game nights stick in your routine. 

Links to Games

Preschool

• Zingo
• Sequence for Kids
• Candy Land
• Chutes and Ladders

Early Elementary (K-2nd Grade)

• Uno
• Sleeping Queens
• Pokemon Labyrinth 
• Monopoly Junior
• Connect 4
• Guess Who
• Rat a Tat Cat
• Clue Jr
• Charades for Kids
• Guess in 10
• Math Island
• My First Carcassonne 
• Ticket to Ride First Journey
• Catan Jr

Late Elementary (3-5th Grade)

• Cascadia
• Ticket to Ride
• Rummikub 
• Scrabble
• Sequence
• Settlers of Catan

Middle School+ 

• Codenames
• Scattergories 
• Monopoly
• Yahtzee 
• Exploding Kittens 
• Playing Cards
• Euchre

Cooperative

• Hoot Owl Hoot
• Outfoxed

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