With summer winding down and kids gearing up return to school, families might be looking for some quiet fun. What’s better than a night in with board games or card games? Besides being a fun way to bring your family to the table, playing games together helps children develop important skills like problem solving, communication, and socialization. The library has board games for all ages to check out and play at home. You can check out two games per library card, and each game has a loan period of one week. 
FDL has lots of board games for children, including classics like Candyland, Trouble, Checkers, Chutes and Ladders, and Battleship. We also have a variety of family-favorite card games, including Uno, Skip-Bo Junior, Monopoly Deal, Old Maid, and Memory. We have lots of new games, too, with new titles added regularly. Try a few out and let us know which ones are your family favorites!
Some of our most popular games include:
Ticket to Ride: First Journey
Players collect cards of various types of train cars and use them to lay claim to railway routes throughout North America. The first person to claim 6 routes is the winner.
Catan Junior
Thos game takes place on a ring of tropical isles, including the mysterious Spooky Island, home of the Ghost Captain. Each island generates a specific resource: wood, goats, molasses, gold or cutlasses. Players use resources to build and expand their network of pirate lairs. The first player to control seven pirate lairs wins the game.
The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game!
The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game helps preschoolers master matching skills, develop fine motor skills including pre-handwriting skills, social skills like taking turns, and strategic thinking skills.
Munchkin Treasure Hunt
Explore the dungeon! Roll the die, move, fight the monster, get the most gold, and win!
Professor Noggin’s Extraordinary Women Card Game
Professor Noggin’s series of educational games encourages kids to learn interesting facts about their favorite subjects. Each of the thirty game cards combines trivia, true or false, and multiple-choice questions. A special three numbered die is included which creates interaction and promotes communication between players. Easy and hard levels keep kids interested and challenged – while of course having fun!
Monopoly Deal
The purpose is to assemble property sets, charge rent, swap cards, demand birthday money, and debt collection by drawing cards from the deal pile. Action cards are played into the center only on players’ turns; payment demands can be paid from other players’ banks, their properties, or cancelled by a “just say no card.” The first player to collect three complete card sets of different colors wins the game.
Annotations from the FDL Library Catalog
– Kris, Youth Services Specialist