As many of our patrons know, at Fondulac Library we love our board games! However, did you know we also have new additions to our children’s collection? Here are some of my favorite new board games for kids just learning how to play games with their family!
Who doesn’t like Bluey and Bingo?! This is another silly game, where the family draws cards and is tasked with being as goofy as possible. The game’s goal is to collect all the toys before bedtime. This is a great game for any kids who struggle with not winning. The family works as a team and loses and wins together!
Just like everybody loves Bluey, who doesn’t love Dog Man?! Add hot dogs into the mix, and this card game just makes sense! The game is exactly like it sounds. One player slowly reveals cards on the table. As hot dogs appear, players must follow certain rules, then everybody tries to grab up as many hot dogs as they can before their opponents!
Happy Salmon takes traditional Go Fish to a new level! It is a matching game, just like Go Fish, but instead of hiding your cards everybody yells out what they have at the same time. Once you find a match for your card, both players do a silly action together and discard their cards. This game works for both kids who can read and kids who can’t read, because of how colorful and unique each card is.
This game is “laugh-out-loud” fun for both parents and kids. The game consists of you passing a chicken around as it clucks. Each person who gets the chicken gets to shake it, draw a card, and do something silly. Every now and then a player must also run out of the room and find the “chicken butt” token as one of the actions in the game!
by Jacob Roberts, Youth Services Specialist
