Board games are a fantastic way to curate an engaging learning experience in your homeschool. In fact, so many homeschool families have realized the educational benefits of board games, that they have coined the term game-schooling!
What is Game-Schooling?
Game-schooling is an educational approach where academic subjects are taught using board games. It involves integrating various types of games into the learning process to make education more engaging, interactive, and enjoyable for students.
These are the best nature-themed board games to include in your homeschool!
1. Pocket Forest
Pocket Forest is the card game with a purpose! Complete Quests to collect cards. Learn real facts about nature, plants, and animals along the way. Build a deck with the cards you collect. Use your deck to compete with friends! This game can be enjoyed by children ages 4+.
2. Wildcraft
Gather the family and go on an imaginary adventure foraging plants through forests, trails, and waterfalls! Wildcraft!, one of our educational games, introduces the wonderful world of herbs to kids as young as 4 years old.
3. Wonder Woods
Wonder Woods is a beautiful bluffing strategy board game of deductions referring to mushrooms hunting, for mushroom and nature enthusiasts. This 2 to 5 players nature inspired game can be enjoyed by parents playing with their children as well as adults, also plays very well as a 2 players board game. Best recommended for ages 8 & Up.
4. Leaf
Guide leaves to the forest floor to create a thriving ecosystem and compete for the most acorns by touching leaf tiles for extra actions. As the game continues a beautiful collection of tiled leaves forms across the table. Best suited for ages 10+.
5. Everdell & My Lil Everdell
Within the charming valley of Everdell, beneath the boughs of towering trees, among meandering streams and mossy hollows, a civilization of forest critters is thriving and expanding. From Everfrost to Bellsong, many a year have come and gone, but the time has come for new territories to be settled and new cities established. You will be the leader of a group of critters intent on just such a task. There are buildings to construct, lively characters to meet, events to host—you have a busy year ahead of yourself. Will the sun shine brightest on your city before the winter moon rises? This game is best suited for children 10+. For younger players, try My Lil Oversell!
