Activities For Kids Easy crafts and printables for kids, preschool and older. You'll also find Birthday Party themes, Holiday crafts, Kids recipes and Classroom prtables.
Keep children entertained with these 6 printable games. These printouts are great to take to a restaurant, on an airplane, for an appointment, and even on school field trips to occupy time on the bus. Several printable game pages of short and easy games to keep kids occupied.
Tic Tac Toe Printout
The object of the game is to get three in a row, horizontal, vertical or diagonal. With paper, use ‘X’ and ‘O’ as players take turns marking a square. For a reusable game, find everyday items: In a restaurant, use sugar packets as the markers and crisscross straws to make the grid. In the car, use a portion of an egg carton and two colors of plastic Easter Eggs. Tic Tac Toe game printout.
Squares Printable Game
Print out the Squares Printable Game or make your own. The object of the game is to create more complete squares than your opponents. Each player takes turns drawing a line to connect two dots. Once a box is created, the person who connected the dots and created a box gets to claim the box with their initials. Who ever has the most initials on the board at the end of the game is the winner. This is a multi-player game.
Hangman Printouts
One player thinks of a word (4 to 6 letters long) and draws that many dashes under the hangman platform. The opponent tries to guess the word by selecting letters from the alphabet. It is helpful give hints such as the category of the word (colors, states, animals …) The opponent has six tries to guess the word – for each incorrect guess a head, body, leg or arm is added to the hangman platform. Use the alphabet to cross off used letters. Printout for Hangman Printout Game.
Happy Face Printable Game
An alternative to the game Hangman, out without the ‘hangin. Same instructions as above. The opponent will have seven tries to guess the word: 2 eyes, 1 nose, 1 mouth, 2 ears and hair. Printout for Happy Face Printout Game.
Money Sudoku for Kids
An easy sudoku version of sudoku for children. Use coins on the printable Sudoku puzzle – quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies in place of writing in numbers. Level 1, four square sudoku teaches children logic and ordering skills. Each of the 4 boxes(of 4 squares) as well as each of the 4 columns and 4 rows will each have one of each of the coins. This is an independent puzzle – one player.
Find the Treasure
This game can be played by two or more players. Print out the Treasure game grid or make one of your own with numbers along the bottom, letters on the left side. The object of this game is similar to that of the classic board game of Battleship. Cut the grids apart, give one each player and one to the leader of the game. The leader can mark from 5 to 10 squares on their grid – this is where the treasure is hidden. The players take turns guessing the coordinates of where the treasure might be. Example: 2,E. All players should mark all guesses on their grid so that they do not repeat the guess. If the guess is correct, that player can mark the square with a star. Whoever finds the most treasure, is the winner.
