Educational games are those that help kids to expand their horizon of knowledge about a certain subject, a particular concept and assist them in learning a skill while they are playing. Educational games are also used to reinforce development and to understand a historical event or culture.  There a large variety of educational games available including board games, card games and video games.

A board game is played with pieces or counters that are placed on, moved across or removed from a board. A board is a pre-marked surface made particular to the specific game. The commonly played educational board games are boards containing geographic subject matters. In such games, the board will be the map of the region taught about. The popular educational board games include Take- off and Brain Chain.
Educational card games are games that use playing cards to teach kids.

Cards can be either traditional or game specific. Card games are usually used to grasp the concepts such as food chain, set matching. There are also Flash cards that are used to teach kids math, animal and dinosaur species. There are also educational computer games that help the students to master the concepts related to a specific area of study.

You can also play eduactional games with your kids. Parents will surely enjoy these eduactional games as much as the kids will. Here are some examples of such eduactional games that you can play with your preschooler.

• Color your kid’s life: Familiarize the various colors to your kid through this fun game. The requirements for this game are watercolors, a paintbrush, a paper and a towel for drying after the game is over. Ask your child to choose a color .You can have fun by painting the chosen color on their hands. Take a print of the color on the paper after finishing. After taking the print on the paper, wash off the color immediately. This can be repeated with other colors. Also, ask your child to say out the name of the colors of their choice aloud. You will enjoy the time you spend with your child while you child will be busy learning some colors.
• Learn time through the fun way: Your child will find a difficult time to grasp the concept of time. They may not be able to tell the time by looking at the clock. It is a task, which won’t come to them much easy. You can simplify this difficulty of your kid. Using words, which the kids can easily relate to will definitely help them in learning the concept of time. You can use “little hands” for the hours hand and “big hands” for the minute’s hand. Connect this activity with the time of their favorite television program .You can inform them about the starting time of your kid’s favorite cartoon program. Ask your child to check the position of the big hand and the small hand of the clock every time the T.V. program starts. It will make them learn time.
• Count the money: This game will help your child understand money. It will also help them learn counting. You can ask your child to count the change in his Daddy’s pocket. You can make the child know about the various types of money and their value. Your child will recognize the various types of changes through their color. It will be a fun pass time for your child. It will be the best starting lesson to understand the money concept.

Educational games for kids thus provide with an early opportunity to start learning things without avoiding their playful characteristics.