10 Awesome Spelling Games That Kids Could Play [Guest post]
Are you looking for a great toy that can be fun for your kids and teach them something new? Have you considered spelling games? While most parents may buy a toy or some piece of technology for their children, you could do your kids a favor and boost their imagination with these fun and interesting games.
Here are some of the best options of Spelling games :
Match and Spell
Encourage preschool children to start recognizing letters and building words with this game. The goal of this game is to spell words by matching the letter cards with each word. As they learn more, they will have more confidence and then they can turn the board over and spell the words themselves. Then they can start heading towards reading through colorful pieces.
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Fish ‘N’ Spell Race
Everyone enjoys fishing! With it, spelling and reading will be no issue at all. This is a two-player game that will challenge children to be the first ones to catch enough letters to form a proper word or their target word. It has 80 letters from which you can create your own words or the words given in the game. It has four-language cards and it can help children learn more than one language.
Match and Spell Next Steps
This is the sequel to the best selling game we mentioned above and it’s aimed at children who are older than five. It can help them develop great reading skills and build even more spelling confidence. The sounds and blends are simple. The cards are very simple and double-sided. You can also use the blank side of the cards and bring on some extra challenges.
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Spelling Cards
This is a card game best for practicing spelling of the words that are listed in the words lists for year 3 and 4. You can use this game to encourage your child’s competitive streak and have a fun race to see who can spell more. There is also a spelling test practice done through playing.
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Scrabble Twist and Turn
This is a portable and quick game that you can carry anywhere and play with your whole family. There are no points or anything similar, but there are a lot of wildcards and young kids can compete against each other and older children as well. You can pack it anywhere and have fun with your entire family no matter where you are,” says Alma Nita, English teacher at Write My X and Academicbrits.
Curious George
This is an application based on the wonderful and educational cartoon Curious George and the adorable title character George, who is a monkey. It’s built to help children learn while on mobile devices instead of spending time on something that’s not educational at all. Your child will develop a good sense or alphabet and reading as well as shapes and many other things.
Quiddler Card Game
This game won 20 awards and it’s one of the most interesting spelling games for children. Every player gets a new card with each new round so they can build bigger and better words. Letter cards have point values and the one who gathers the most points can be the winner. You can do many things to adjust the game for smaller children as well so the whole family can play.
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Rory’s Story Cubes
Every one of these stories starts with ‘Once upon a time…’ and then you roll the cubes in order to get a picture that will help you tell a story from that point on. It’s a wonderful game that the whole family can play and enjoy. It can even be funny at times when the story turns whimsical and entertaining.
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Spelling Monster
“Spelling monster is another interesting spelling game that a whole family can enjoy and have fun with. You can build many words and even use a pre-made list that they give you. As a big bonus, younger children can play too and everyone can learn from it,” says Tonya Gooding, developer of children games at 1day2write.
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Family friendly games are the greatest – the whole family can play and your children can learn something new as well. I’m sure, one of these options will work for you.
Thanks Joel for this informative post. I’m sure, many parents, including me, would love to have these Spelling games for our kids. They are even great as gifting options.
Author’s Bio :
Joel Syder works as an English teacher and writer at Originwritings.com and Australia2write.com. He loves writing for Brit Student and helping parents work with their children on their language skills.
Thank you for sharing this informative post. I have not heard of any of these games before but I will certainly check them out now.
These are some interesting games and I am sure it will be fun for kids to learn while they play. Great post
So many games that really make kids spelling learning easy and fun. I will buy some games for my son
We have played Curious George with our kids but I’m trying to get them to play Scrabble too.
I really like the look of Match and spell game as the words are broken into sounds and that’s how my son is being taught in his school. I see it is made in Britain so I can easily find it here and this will be a great activity to teach him while play. Thanks for sharing Jhilmil. Very useful!
I like the sound of Story time play where every story starts with once upon a time…it will help with imagination skills of child and would be interesting to play as a family. Fabulous suggestions.
My daughter is small but this would be so helpful for her. I will keep this article for my reference.
This is really going to be fun to make your kids learn spellings through these creative games. Kids nowadayslove to indulge in learning through games/playful activities.
Woah. These are some excellent options to teach spelling to the kids in a fun way. Would love to buy few for my daughter. I loved the first one. Thanks for this information.
Woah. These are some excellent options to teach spelling to the kids in a fun way. Would love to buy few for my daughter. I loved the first one. Thanks for sharing this with me
Woah. These are some excellent options to teach spelling to the kids in a fun way. Would love to buy few for my daughter. I loved the first one. Thanks for sharing this with me
This is definetly a fun way to make the kids learn new words and increase their vocabulary..kids learn when they do it the fun way..
My niece is gonna love this. A very informative article. We should keep trying different stuffs to keep the kids entertained while also teaching them something.
Kids will learn and enjoy playing this interesting indoor games. This is really going to be fun to make your kids learn spellings. Thank you for sharing such an amazing post.
These spelling games are really helpful.. We have the fish n spell race game at home and my son loves playing that..
My baby is just learning alphabets but these seem like a great spell games for my nephews. Will surely check it out on Amazon
These are wonderful games that entertain and also help in building vocabulary. In this age of smartphones, these games come as a breath of fresh air. Always remember the Scrabble games we used to play with the family.
It’s a great list of games and they are educational too. I liked the spelling cards and spelling monsters. Fun and learning together.
Match and spell game is always a hit with kids. My kids used to play a lot when they were small, now they are into scrabble . These games are also a great gifting options .
I love all the games you shared .A family favourite is scrabble for a very long time.Having fun spelling works for my kid all the time.
Sometimes it’s quite a task for kids to sit down and work on spellings! And these games seem like a fun and extremely interactive way of learning the fun way
Games which entertain, engage, and also educate are good for children. These spelling games look just right for kids in current times.
Among all Scrabble is the one which I play with my kids the most, they both love to play this one.
My son recently started with words and he loves to spell out words. These games can really entertain kids for long hours. Beautiful article.
Wow that’s awesome..these games are fun and learning too..I am going to try this with my daughter tok
These are some interesting games for kids. It will be fun for kids to learn while they play.
This is a great informative post.
So many ideas in one post for kids ,
They can enjoy while learning with these games.
Such kids games are really good for all kinds of developement, their motor skills, their sensory skills r also developed
That’s perfect guide for introducing alphabet learning in kids early years. They’ll definitely enjoy this fun learning activities
I’m bookmarking this one! This is very, very helpful. Thanks for compiling this list.
Really nice list, i think there are three more games needs to be included in this list
1) Kids Spell Matcher
2) Kids Spell Archery
3) Word Cafe
Great post! 👍 Thanks for sharing that’s what makes the learning experience more enjoyable. 😉
Jane