Games and Activities
Laptop Expansion Set (Ages 8+)
GeoSafari Laptop is a fun interactive game with wild lights and sounds to guide gameplay, track scores, and provide feedback. Expand your Ages 3-7 edition to include higher skill levels with this set of 63 two-sided cards for 126 lessons designed for Grades 3 to adult.
Traverse
Chinese checkers gone wild! Either level of play - simple or advanced - strengthens students' observation and thinking skills. The first player to move all of their pieces from their starting row on one side of the board to their destination row on the other side is the winner! For 2-4 players.
Mensa Mind Games(SM) Hall of Fame
Tunnelz
This twisting, turning, tunnel maze-race is great fun for two players! Your challenge: create a twisting, turning, or straight tunnel from one side of the cube to the other - while preventing your opponent from doing the same! The uniquely designed blocks stay firmly in place so you can tilt the cube to any angle while planning your route. Includes Tunnelz cube, 16 blocks, and game guide.
Obscurity
A board game for word lovers of all ages. It's part word search, part vocabulary challenge. Place a word search card on the game board, and ready, set, GO! Everyone races to find words, four letters minimum. Words may be formed in any direction as long as letters are touching. The first person to write down 10 words shouts, "Obscurity!" But be careful -- you must think fast and be smart or victory can slip away if other players have matching words. Players then use the word list on the back of the card to score their words. The first player to earn 60 points wins.
Tri-Words
Can you think fast under pressure? With Tri-Words, students will have fun scrambling to sort out their 3-sided letter tiles into color-coded words. This fast-paced game packs a world of colorful, word-powered fun inside its compact tin case. And it's easy to play!
Each player draws 5 to 8 Tri-Tiles from the pile. Throw the Tri-Die to determine how many words to make from your tiles and the color that will give you the most points. The first player to finish flips the timer, putting the pressure on the other players.
1 to 6 players
GeoSafari Spin USA
Spin and play your way across the U.S.A!
Spin USA is the fast-paced, fun, effective way to sharpen U.S. geography skills! Players press the Spin USA Spin Timer, and then everyone races simultaneously to find their particular state before time runs out. This is a fun family game where everyone learns state locations and capitals.
Includes the 2-in-1 Spin Timer, 100 state and capital cards, 4 USA map game boards, and 28 pegs in 4 colors.
Spin Timer requires 3 AAA batteries (not included).
For 2 to 4 players. Grades 3 and up.
Zookeeper Nightmare
The ZANY ZOO puzzle game
It's a zookeeper's worst nightmare! One of the animals is loose! Your challenge in this puzzle activity game is to round up the runaway and "slide and guide" it back home. But that's no easy task in this zany zoo, where you can get tangled in a tail or stopped by a snout.
Zookeeper's Nightmare comes with a sturdy plastic Zoo Zone puzzle board, 12 realistic wild animal puzzle pieces, and a full-color Zookeeper's Manual with 18 mind-bending puzzles (beginner to advanced) PLUS instructions for making hundreds of your own puzzles! Round up your logical-thinking skills and get ready for hours of puzzle fun.
For 1 player.
Place Value Dominoes
Turn students into place value wizards with these color-coded dominoes!
Set of 48 durable dominoes can be played at three levels of difficulty depending on the ability level of the students. Dominoes feature 2 to 5-digit numbers covering ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands places. Instruction booklet included.
Grades 2+
2-4 players
Spelling Bee - Level 1
Buzz around the bases and head to the honey hive with this ultimate vocabulary game
Vocabulary Builder
Words are the "weights" to this workout! A refreshing and truly enjoyable way to build vocabulary, this full-color board game takes learners on a "defining" mission. Players advance along the path by spinning the spinner and correctly defining words
Egg Race
With HABA toys, you foster your child's development. HABA's high quality design of shapes and colors stimulates sensory perception, and introduces new, valuable experiences as your child grows. With HABA, your child learns to understand the world through play.
Children race against each other while holding frogs, clown heads or eggs with balancing sticks. Whoever reaches the finish line or goes the farthest without dropping anything, wins! HABA's Egg Race is made of all natural beech wood and finished with completely non-toxic, child friendly paints and dyes. Ages 3 years and up.
Egg Race includes:
- 2 balancing sticks
- 22 balancing pieces
Dimensions:
- Balancing Stick measures approximately 18.3"
Made in Germany.
Bendomino Deluxe
One twist of strategy, two twists of fun!
Bendominoes play just like regular dominoes, but their innovative curved design gives you much more control over the game. Full of challenges , Bendomino offers passionate games in which strategy, luck and good times are always combined.
A great game for all generations!
Fundomino
Master the Action!
A domino game packed with action and fun for everyone!
DRAW Action (The Plus symbol) : The next player draws a tile before playing.
PLAY AGAIN (The Arrow symbol) : Play again.
WILD Action (The Star symbol) : Can match or be matched with any color.
HaChoo!
HaChoo! The Feel Better game!
HaChoo is an exciting new board game, designed to be both educational
and fun, with the emphasis on fun!
All players start out with fevers.The first one to reduce their fever back to normal
with the proper ingredients is the winner.
The excitement is generated in three ways:
- Players collect playing cards
- Players reduce their fevers on their own thermometer by discarding cards
- Players participate vocally when they land on special spaces!
HaChoo! will teach the basic principles of good health and can reduce the worry and questions about those first doctor's office visits.
Contains:
- 1 Game board
- 8 Game pieces
- Stack of HaChoo! game cards
Escapades
Escapades contains over 300 indoor and outdoor games, activities and adventures. Divided by category in a recipe-like box of fun, Escapades is full of imaginative ideas for everything from juvenile birthday parties, classrooms, retreats, picnics, vacations and evenings at home. All that is needed are the cards and a few simple props.
LEGO World Explorer DVD Game
Go on an adventure through four different LEGO worlds as you make your way to LEGOLAND! On every turn, players use the remote control to complete one of six different types of activities on the DVD:
- Win a Car Race
- Navigate a Maze
- Shoot a Catapult
- Spot the Difference
- Hot Potato
- More or Less LEGOs?
Contains:
- Interactive DVD
- Game Board
- 6 LEGO Brick Playing Pieces
- Instructions
For 2 to 6 players.
Ages 6 and up.
Rubik's You Can Do It!
Everyone knows and loves the Rubik's Cube but only a select few can solve it. The easy-to-follow DVD carefully shows you how to twist and turn the Cube and methodically solve it. World famous speedcuber Tyson Mao taught Will Smith and he will teach you too!
Contents:
- DVD and Rubik's Cube
- Instructions
Monopoly: The Mega Edition
Bigger, Faster, Own It All and More! The same classic board we all know and love PLUS 9 new properties including 7 new states! In Monopoly: The Mega Edition, you'll be able to build skyscrapers after you've built your hotels AND the game will play faster thanks to the all new Speed Die!
Contents:
- Big quad-fold game board
- 32 houses, 12 hotels, 8 skyscrapers, 4 depots, tokens, 37 title deed cards, 16 chance cards, 16 community chest cards, 16 bus tickets, 2 dice, 1 speed die
- Pad of money (including new $1,000 bills)
- Banker's tray
- Full-color, illustrated rules/instructions
Chameleon
The Towering Game of Stack Tactics
2-4 Players
It's the 3-D building game with a colorful twist. As players race to build towers using their Chameleon blocks, there's a surprise with every move-the Chameleon blocks magically change their colors! Place one block on a tower, and the block below changes color! You'll need skill and luck to correctly "predict" what colors will appear. Matching colors earns you another turn. If block colors don't match, dismantle the tower, block by block, and start from the ground up!
Grades K+ Ages 5+
Soundtooning
Put together a pan and a cake. What do you get?
A pancake!
Connect two picture puzzles, flip them over,
and discover a surprise picture of a new word. Your little
ones will squeal with delight while playing with these turn
and learn puzzles.
4 clever listening games, engaging real life images, and
multiple levels of play make this a fun way for young
children to develop listening skills and create words
- critical skills in learning to read! Children can play by
themselves or with friends.
No reading required.
This award winner includes:
- 40 self-correcting puzzle pieces
- 40 word cards
- 60-word vocabulary list
North Pole Camouflage
Can you help these Arctic dwellers "hide in plain sight?" Use snow and ice to camouflage the polar bear and blue water to conceal the whale and fish! Arrange the six transparent puzzle pieces so that the animals are camouflaged in their correct environments, but watch out that the animals don't overlap the people! Game includes game board (with pull out drawer to store puzzle pieces and cards), 48 puzzle cards (with 4 levels of difficulty), 6 transparent puzzle pieces, and solution booklet. Game is for one player.
Maze Ways Cat and Mouse
Furry critters need help finding their way through a maze of possible paths in these brain-teasing, logical thinking puzzles. Solve each challenge by rearranging the 9 tiles to build connecting paths between the icons pictured on the challenge. There are 48 unique multi-level challenges and hundreds of puzzling possibilities. Includes game board with built-in storage compartment, maze booklet with puzzles and solutions.
A Great Day on the Farm Children's Book
HABA's children's books are fun and educational!
"A Great Day on the Farm" is a child's first picture and story book with puzzles and a dice game. There is so much to do on the farm! Today, Benny is going to be woken up very early in the morning by a crowing rooster. Then, he helps Aunt Ellie in the garden, goes to visit Uncle Willie in the field, and then he feeds the chickens with Adam. In the evening he is so tired that he falls into his bed! Wow, what a great day on the farm! Ages 3 years and up.
- For 2 to 4 players
Contents:
- 4 Wooden game pieces
- Cardboard book with 6 puzzles and 1 dice game
- Each page contains a part of the jigsaw. The 6 small jigsaw pieces together make a large picture with lots to see and discover!
Dimensions:
- 13" x 8"
Book made in China. Wooden game pieces made in Germany.
Word Usage Speedway
The excitement of car racing enlivens this game as players whiz around the board gaining practice in word usage combinations! Players must complete a Qualify sentence and one or more Race Day sentences in order to place chips on the board. The first player to place 4 chips on the word grid in a row, column, diagonal, or square wins the game!
Example Race Day sentence: We built a doghouse ________ the tree in our backyard (by buy).
2-4 players.
