Creating Your Own Educational Card Game

Applying What We Learn: Extending your child’s learning by Creating Card Games

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When you have a super creative child or when you want to encourage your child to be creative, making your own card game or board game is a fun way to learn while having fun. It reinforces whatever concept you are learning.

What Subject Will Your Card Game Review/Teach?

We had just finished learning about the classification of living things in science. We Talked about the 5 kingdoms and decided to focus on the Kingdom Animalia. Animals are just about every kids favorite thing to learn about. Here is what you can do to incorporate making board games:

First, we learned about our subject. For this card game we read the book Animalium: Welcome to the Museum by Jenny Broom and “A Class of their Own: Animals” by Shar Levine and discussed the different classifications of animals. We checked out books from the library and watched a couple of Youtube videos as well.

Second, we brainstormed ways that we could make a game out of what we have learned. Because my daughter had been playing a variety of Go Fish games lately, inspiration for her was easy. We decided to make different card categories in sets of six. She picked the following classes of animals: Reptiles, insects, mammals, birds, and fish; then for each class of animal, she gave six different examples and drew a picture of the creature. The concept of animal classification was learned and reinforced using this fun activity.

What will you need?

Finally, you will need to purchase either a set of blank playing cards, a blank board game set, and sharpies so that your markers don’t smear on the cards.

We have played her game several times now and it is actually quite fun. It is nice to see my daughter’s smile as we play her game. I think we will try making a board game next. 🙂

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So, will you try to encourage your child to create their own card game or board game? If so, which one and how will you create it? What subject will you reinforce with a card game?