Jenga is a fun game where you need to pull a block out from a tower and hope it doesn’t fall to pieces.
This game is perfect for all ages, as you need to use a mixture of skill, strategy, and luck. Students will find themselves engrossed in this game which is quick to set up.
You can also adjust it to become an icebreaker for your students to get to know each other.
Top Trumps is an educational card game that is played all around the world.
There are many different topics available, from education to popular film series. They come in a plastic carry case so that you can keep them together.
Look at the stats at the bottom of the cards and watch as your students strategize to defeat one another and learn as they play.
Clue is an age-old classic that can be an amazing addition to your classroom’s board game library.
This is a re-imagined edition, and you need to figure out who committed the murder. Your students will need to use deductive reasoning to find out who killed the victim, where, and with what object.
You can incorporate more students by working in small teams, allowing them to focus on problem-solving and working with one another to find the others.
Ticket to Ride can help your students learn more about geography as they build railroad tracks across the United States.
The goal is to collect and play matching train cards to connect the cities in North America. This is a fast and easy way to learn, and you can play it with two to five players.
You can involve more players by putting them in teams and working together to determine the best route to get the best results.
Bananagrams is a simple game where your students will race against each other to build a crossword grid.
It’s a great way to teach your students new words and introduce them to new anagrams.
Suppose you want to improve your students' vocabulary without worrying about the set-up time. In that case, Bananagrams can be a great alternative to Scrabble.
Catan can be a great way to teach your students about how to build their own settlements. They can learn about the value of resources and building developments to increase their wealth.
If you need a game to help your students learn about history in basic terms, then Catan can be a great way to do so.
You can incorporate more students by allowing them to work in teams to come up with strategies to defeat the other players.
Instead of focusing on spelling, consider testing your students with words and definitions. Your students need to make up fake definitions and see if other students will fall for them.
Balderdash is a fun way to test that students understand the meaning of words by seeing if they can trick the other students.
You can make it more educational by discussing the definitions at the end of each round and exploring their reasoning.
Operation is a basic game to help your students work on hand-eye coordination. You can make it more educational by talking about the human body as you work.
You can allow each of your students to take a turn at removing Cavity Sam’s ailments from his body. It’s a great way to make basic biology interesting for your younger students.
Blokus is a fun strategy game that will keep your students entertained at recess. They need to fit the most pieces on the board and use strategy to block their opponents.
You can include more students by having them work in teams and see their next move. This can be a fun team-building activity as your students work together to beat their opponents strategically.
Are you tired of the usual Four in a Row and Tic Tac Toe? If so, we’ve found the perfect game for you and your students.
Brix is a hybrid of Four in a Row and Tic Tac Toe, making it a fun game for students who need to use their problem-solving skills to ensure they don’t make a mistake.
They need to make sure the symbols and colors don’t match their opponent, making it a fun game for recess or when any students finish their work early.
Photosynthesis is a game that utilizes strategy to teach you about the environmental life cycle.
While it is a longer game, if you’re looking for a change of pace in the classroom, Photosynthesis can be an exciting new way to teach your students about the cycle of plants.
Your students will take their trees through their life cycle and have a new way of understanding biology.
Final Thoughts
We hope this list has helped you find fun new ways to play board games in the classroom.
Whether you’re looking for a fun board game at recess or if you want a new way to teach your students about different subjects.
These board games are some of the best ways to make learning fun for students of all ages and can bring a new way of learning to the classroom.
Hi, my name is Helena Waters and I was a teacher for 40 years before retiring last year.
During my time as a teacher I dedicated the majority of it to making classrooms as fun as possible, with educational parties, fun activities, and low cost entertainment that made the children excited about learning.
I taught children of all ages, from preschoolers to high school students. Now, with the pandemic having uprooted everything that children once knew about school and learning, I think that the need for my ideas is bigger than ever.
That is why I created School Sparks, a place in which I can write down and share all of my ideas on how to get students excited about going to school again. I hope that you’ll find some useful within a school setting, even at home too!
