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Helping Teens Cope with Stress

Helping Teens Cope With Stress

Learn how playing board games can strengthen the bond between parents and teens while equipping teens with stress management skills.

Helping Teens Cope With Stress

Learn how playing board games can strengthen the bond between parents and teens while equipping teens with stress management skills.

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SimplyFun Blog - How Shakespeare's Works Have Impacted Modern Culture

How Shakespeare’s Influence Shaped Global Culture

Uncover fun facts about Shakespeare and learn how his works have impacted modern culture.

How Shakespeare’s Influence Shaped Global Culture

Uncover fun facts about Shakespeare and learn how his works have impacted modern culture.

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Aspirational play and kids exploring STEM activities

Aspirational Play Can Help Kids Explore STEM

Aspirational play comes naturally to children. They may borrow dad's white button up for a lab coat while pretending to be a scientist. Or make mud pies in a make-believe...

Aspirational Play Can Help Kids Explore STEM

Aspirational play comes naturally to children. They may borrow dad's white button up for a lab coat while pretending to be a scientist. Or make mud pies in a make-believe...

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Incorporating 'Sneaky Math' into Everyday Life

Incorporating 'Sneaky Math' into Everyday Life

March is the perfect time to incorporate sneaky math into everyday life! Sneaky math helps kids understand math and math concepts in a fun way to build confidence and support a positive...

Incorporating 'Sneaky Math' into Everyday Life

March is the perfect time to incorporate sneaky math into everyday life! Sneaky math helps kids understand math and math concepts in a fun way to build confidence and support a positive...

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Soft Skills vs. Hard Skills, Why Do Kids Need Both?

Soft Skills vs. Hard Skills, Why Do Kids Need B...

How developing your child's soft skills and hard skills at an early age can help them thrive in the future.

Soft Skills vs. Hard Skills, Why Do Kids Need B...

How developing your child's soft skills and hard skills at an early age can help them thrive in the future.

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SimplyFun Blog -Raising Confident Learners with Educational Games

Raising Confident Learners with Educational Games

Confident learners are not born confident. They are simply the result of encouragement and effective teaching. Each student is unique, and no two children learn in quite the same way....

Raising Confident Learners with Educational Games

Confident learners are not born confident. They are simply the result of encouragement and effective teaching. Each student is unique, and no two children learn in quite the same way....

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Encouraging Social Play to Build Stronger Bonds

Encouraging Social Play to Build Stronger Bonds

Social Play, Skills, and Development Make time for play! Playing and learning with games is not only fun, but it can also help children develop essential social competence that will...

Encouraging Social Play to Build Stronger Bonds

Social Play, Skills, and Development Make time for play! Playing and learning with games is not only fun, but it can also help children develop essential social competence that will...

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how to increase your child's interest in math

Practical Ways to Increase Your Child’s Interes...

Are you a parent who wants to increase your child’s motivation and interest in math? If so, avoid math workbooks and flashcards. While some children may find these challenging and...

Practical Ways to Increase Your Child’s Interes...

Are you a parent who wants to increase your child’s motivation and interest in math? If so, avoid math workbooks and flashcards. While some children may find these challenging and...

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Award-Winning Games of 2021

Award-Winning Games of 2021

Although we are so ready for 2022, let’s give the previous year one last look with SimplyFun’s Award-Winning Games of 2021! Ice Tumble Skills Focus : Spatial Reasoning, Fine Motor...

Award-Winning Games of 2021

Although we are so ready for 2022, let’s give the previous year one last look with SimplyFun’s Award-Winning Games of 2021! Ice Tumble Skills Focus : Spatial Reasoning, Fine Motor...

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Chalk-A-Word is a fun word game for game night!

A Fun Word Game for Game Night- Chalk-A-Word!

Looking for a fun and interactive word game for game night? Let's play Chalk-A-Word!

A Fun Word Game for Game Night- Chalk-A-Word!

Looking for a fun and interactive word game for game night? Let's play Chalk-A-Word!

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teaching kids communication skills

Communication Games for Kids

How game play can help build your child's communication skills.

Communication Games for Kids

How game play can help build your child's communication skills.

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Educational games help prepare kids for back to school

Learning Social Sciences with Games

Avoid the 'summer slide' while helping kids prepare for back to school with these fun educational games!

Learning Social Sciences with Games

Avoid the 'summer slide' while helping kids prepare for back to school with these fun educational games!

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Social and Emotional Development, Are Kids Behind?

Social and Emotional Development, Are Kids Behind?

There’s been a lot of chatter about how kids are behind academically as a result of COVID. As much as two years of school in some cases. But academics is...

Social and Emotional Development, Are Kids Behind?

There’s been a lot of chatter about how kids are behind academically as a result of COVID. As much as two years of school in some cases. But academics is...

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back to school educational games

Prepare for Back-to-School with Play!

Even though it looms all summer long, back-to-school can sneak up on you! Kids are no doubt going to need some extra help to get back-to-school ready this year, but...

Prepare for Back-to-School with Play!

Even though it looms all summer long, back-to-school can sneak up on you! Kids are no doubt going to need some extra help to get back-to-school ready this year, but...

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Improve Homeschooling with Gameschooling

Improve Homeschooling with Gameschooling

What sounds more fun to you? Worksheets or gameplay? Let's talk Gameschooling and the many benefits it has for helping children learn!

Improve Homeschooling with Gameschooling

What sounds more fun to you? Worksheets or gameplay? Let's talk Gameschooling and the many benefits it has for helping children learn!

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play is the best gift you can give a child

What It Means to Give the Gift of Play To A Child

How educational games and play create confidence and a curiosity for learning.

What It Means to Give the Gift of Play To A Child

How educational games and play create confidence and a curiosity for learning.

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Helping kids develop a love for learning.

Helping Your Kids Develop a Love of Learning

Helping your kids develop a love of learning is one of the most important things you can do as a parent. What better way to do that than with an...

Helping Your Kids Develop a Love of Learning

Helping your kids develop a love of learning is one of the most important things you can do as a parent. What better way to do that than with an...

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educational games for back to school

How Games Can Help Kids Transition Back to School

Dr. Toni Linder provides fun and practical tips to help your child transition back to school while avoiding the 'summer slide'.  

How Games Can Help Kids Transition Back to School

Dr. Toni Linder provides fun and practical tips to help your child transition back to school while avoiding the 'summer slide'.  

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Navigation game- Phantom Seas Board Game

Let's Sail with Navigation Game, Phantom Seas!

Navigation game, Phantom Seas is a fun way to explore navigation and directional awareness in this unique family-fun pirate ship game that features a compass and a rotating game board.

Let's Sail with Navigation Game, Phantom Seas!

Navigation game, Phantom Seas is a fun way to explore navigation and directional awareness in this unique family-fun pirate ship game that features a compass and a rotating game board.

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Family Game Night Stacking Game -Ice Tumble

Game Night with Stacking Game, Ice Tumble!

Stacking Game, Ice Tumble makes family game night a blast! Practice physics and spatial reasoning while you stack the slippery blocks in Ice Tumble!

Game Night with Stacking Game, Ice Tumble!

Stacking Game, Ice Tumble makes family game night a blast! Practice physics and spatial reasoning while you stack the slippery blocks in Ice Tumble!

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Eagle Chase- U.S. History & Geography Board Game

Geography Game Eagle Chase

Adventure awaits with our U.S. history & geography game, Eagle Chase! A game that’ll have you and your family exploring historical, geological and geographical sites of the United States, learning...

Geography Game Eagle Chase

Adventure awaits with our U.S. history & geography game, Eagle Chase! A game that’ll have you and your family exploring historical, geological and geographical sites of the United States, learning...

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Dish 'Em Out - Strategy Game for Tabletop Gaming

Dish ‘em Out: A Diner-Theme Life & Thinking Ski...

Dish ‘em Out is one of SimplyFun’s best-selling Life & Thinking Skills Game! Great for ages 8 and up, and for practicing strategy and planning skills! So, have you ever...

Dish ‘em Out: A Diner-Theme Life & Thinking Ski...

Dish ‘em Out is one of SimplyFun’s best-selling Life & Thinking Skills Game! Great for ages 8 and up, and for practicing strategy and planning skills! So, have you ever...

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Ecology Game SavannaScapes—Our Wildest Game Yet

Ecology Game SavannaScapes—Our Wildest Game Yet

Our newest ecology board game takes players on a journey to the African Savanna where they learn to build an ecosystem to support the flora and fauna on the Serengeti-Mara.

Ecology Game SavannaScapes—Our Wildest Game Yet

Our newest ecology board game takes players on a journey to the African Savanna where they learn to build an ecosystem to support the flora and fauna on the Serengeti-Mara.

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Space Game Planet Voyagers by SimplyFun

Learn Astronomy with Space Game Planet Voyagers

Tour space and conduct planetary research in Planet Voyagers, a social science board game that focuses on astronomy and strategy.

Learn Astronomy with Space Game Planet Voyagers

Tour space and conduct planetary research in Planet Voyagers, a social science board game that focuses on astronomy and strategy.

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