Our Favorite Educational Games for Kids [2021 UPDATED] (K-6) Pt. 3
Gaming has taken over our kid’s attention — and for a good reason. They’re fun! You may have noticed your kid glued to their console, tablet or computer at home playing Fortnite or Minecraft or Among Us all day. Stop! And think twice before you rip them away from their screens. Research suggests that “playing video games can change the brain regions responsible for attention and visuospatial skills and make them more efficient” (Science Daily)
Although, some games are better than others and while all games have some “nutrients” for the brain, certain games are packed with them. We’ve put together a list of the best and most neuroneutritious of them all bringing us to one website that’s the best at gameifying learning we’ve seen yet.
This brings us to Abcya.com. A website with leaning apps and games for kids Pre K- Grade 6 based off of common core curriculum standards for each grade level. On each level, all the games are organized by five types:
Letters
Numbers
Holiday
Strategy
Skills
Each game is designed to support a specific set of Common Core Standards for different skills that need to be developed based on each grade level.
We chose our TOP picks from each grade level to dive into (Pre K- Grade 6):
Pre-K
Our Favorite Word Game:
Alphabet Bubble
Alphabet Bubble helps develop phonemic awareness. Children pop bubbles to match letters with words that start with the correct letter sound. Once a match is completed children are shown a picture of the word.
Our Favorite Number Game:
Fuzz Bugs Pattern
In this game, kids are asked to identify and complete a series of patterns. Pick up the funny little Fuzz Bugs and put them in the right spot… but first you have to catch them!
Our Favorite Holiday Game:
Make A Snowman
Children click and drag different shapes to make a Kindergarten to second grade students learn and practice valuable mouse manipulation techniques. Have Fun!
Our Favorite Strategy Game:
Sushi Slicer
Slice & dice your way to the top! Can you rival the Japanese Ninja Master Chef? Slice the flying ingredients, avoid the bombs and create your own sushi! But beware not to let anything fall to the floor. This one’s just for fun!
Our Favorite Skills Game(s):
Make A Mask
Let your creativity soar and make your very own virtual mask with ABCya's Make-a-Mask game. Customize your mask with patterns, stickers, and embroidered letters, and kids print a copy to show your friends and teachers!
Shapes & Colors Bingo
Take A Trip Jr
Kindergarten
Our Favorite Word Game:
Storymaker
Storymaker is a fun and easy way for children to create and print short stories. An intuitive interface makes it simple for kids to add words, pictures and pages. Students can print or save their stories with just a few clicks!
Our Favorite Numbers Game:
Money Bingo
Money BINGO is a fun and educational game for kids to practice counting money. BINGO grid size options and the ability to select difficulty (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and bills) make this activity good for kindergarten through grade five. Have fun learning to count money!
Our Favorite Holiday Game:
Make A Snowman
Children click and drag different shapes to make a Kindergarten to second grade students learn and practice valuable mouse manipulation techniques. Have Fun!
Our Favorite Strategy Game:
Jelly Collapse
Jelly Collapse is a physics-based puzzle for kids of all ages. Tap chains of like-colored jellies to collect them and reach the goal!
Our Favorite Skills Game:
Take A Trip Jr
Take a Trip Jr is a truly unique activity. You have four lives to carefully move your car through the town maze to reach your destination and learn some fun facts about the location. Be careful to remember the correct path! This activity provides good hand-eye coordination as well as mouse manipulation skills.
Grade 1
Our Favorite Word Game:
Alphabats
Alphabats - Syllables is a fun way for kids to practice phonemic awareness. They click on the bats’ bellies to hear the words, and then match the words with the same number of syllables.
Our Favorite Numbers Game:
Math Stack
Math Stack is fun game to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division! Tap the falling blocks to answer the equation listed at the top of the screen and score 100 points to complete the level. Be careful to not let the blocks stack to the top though!
Our Favorite Holiday Game:
Halloween Hop
Happy Halloween! Test your reflexes and your knowledge of Halloween trivia by hopping from platform to platform while collecting different costumes and candy! How far up can you get in this hopping haunted house?
Our Favorite Strategy Game:
Lineup
Lineum is a relaxing puzzle game where the goal is to turn the entire gameboard green by drawing a continuous line to flip the non-green tiles.
Grade 2
Our Favorite Word Game:
Parts of Speech Quest
A terrible dragon has attacked the kingdom of Lingua and only a Parts of Speech Master will be able to save it. Your kid can put their knowledge of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs to the test as they venture through Parts of Speech Quest! There’s a different game for every part of speech they need to practice.
