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Popular Kids Games - Board Games, Dress Up Games, Card Games:Most of us grew up playing board games like Candyland, Sorry, Trouble, Battleship, Stratego, Risk, Clue, Operation, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Scrabble, Monopoly, Chutes and Ladders, Dont Break the Ice and checkers. Those games are still popular to this day and sell very well in toy stores. Dress up games from Disney and other kids stories (Spongebob, Dora, Wiggles) offer clothing that you put on and pretend to be a character. Girls love the Disney princess outfits for Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. Boys have traditionally played with "rougher" toys like pirate ships, trucks, legos, and swords. Card games are still a great way to introduce memory skills and math into your kids life. Games like Uno require quick thinking and the ability to add. Even basic card games like GoFish are good for little ones to start with. Nowadays LeapFrogs and LeapPads dominate the game industry along with all the game consoles like XBox, PS2, GameCube and Nintendo DS.
Online Kids Games:Imagine growing up with instant access to games, coloring, matching, and video games right at the click of a mouse. Kids today can go online and get on websites that offer games catered to all ages. Disney.com and CartoonNetwork.com are very popular, but I prefer more educational websites with games like PbsKids.org with Sesame Street characters and wholesome games that aren't just a big marketing machine that brainwash our kids. Other sites like Barbie.com and Legos.com are good, but bombard our poor kids with ads and marketing messages through music and sound. As a good parent, watch what your kids get into online, some is good but much of it is bad for them.Party Games:Do you remember playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey, Bean Bag Toss, Treasure Hunt, Drop the Clothespin into a Bottle, Duck, Duck, Goose? Kids love party games at birthdays and that will never change. For a complete list of party game ideas and instructions on how to play them, go to Party Games.
What are some Disney games for Kids?Disney has their nose in everything that kids do including their own line of games. They offer Disney Chess ($35), Disney monopoly ($35), Disney Uno ($19), Dominoes, Trivial Pursuit Scrabble, tic tac toe, Sorry, and Memory. They are themed games with princesses or Mickey Mouse or Winnie the Pooh. Disney also offers a ton of computer related software games for your kids (all ages). Software title.Best Kids Software Games:Computers are a great invention, especially for children. The amount of software available for kids has really taken off with educational and entertainment titles to last you a lifetime. Pick your favorite cartoon and there are software games for it. Dora the Explorer, Spongebob Squarepants, etc. Many of these software titles can bought at stores like Fry's Electronics or online at Surpluscdrom.com. We have found that the Reader Rabbit series of educational software is the best for kids of all ages and sells on Amazon.com for roughly $29. The lessons are interactive with skills for reading, writing, sounds, math, music, shapes, and more. Kids learn fast how to click around the screen and it's fun (they don't even know they are learning).
Educational Games:LeapFrog and LeapPad are the #1 selling kids educational games on the market. They offer activity centers for toddles with sights and sounds for learning colors, numbers, letters and shapes. The LeapPad is perfect for Preschool and Kindergarten age groups with lessons on phonics, reading, writing, and foreign languages. Their new Turbo Extreme Handheld is good for grade school kids with educational features for spelling, math, social studies, and science. Middle and High School students will really learn with their Explorer Globe. The Explorer Globe has 6 different game levels for learning facts about the world. You can purchase all these LeapFrog games at your local toy store or online at Leapfrogstore.com.
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