

9 of the Best Table Top Games For Your Kids This Holiday Season
Helaina Cappel is a grade 7 & 8 Math and STEM teacher in Toronto, and is also co-publisher of Kids Table Board Gaming
Let's face it ... our kids spend too much time in front of screens. It always seems like a struggle in my house to get my kids off of the iPad or away from the TV to do something more productive, except when I ask them to play a table top game. When we play, not only are we making time to enjoy each others' company, we are also making our time spent together educational. Take it from me, when your children play games, they are immersed in learning. Why? Because the learning happens without kids even realizing that they are learning. This makes the experience that much deeper and that much more important. Check out our 2017 Holiday List. There is so much learning to do!
Publisher: Kids Table Board Gaming
Game play: 2 players
Ages: 6+
Play time: 20-30 Min.
Foodfighters is a classic kitchen duel where Meats battle Veggies. Command your fighting Food Factions to reign supreme in the kitchen. Roll dice to knock out one of your opponent’s factions.
Educational Value:
Probability
Commerce
Emergent strategy
Buy Foodfighters online or at Toytown in Toronto!
Publisher: Arcane Wonders
Game play: 2 Players
Ages: 12+
Play time: 10-15 Min.
An abstract strategy game where players take on the role of a Master, guiding their monk followers, attempting to defeat your opponent!
Educational Value:
Strategic thinking
Spatial awareness
Planning
Publisher: AMIGO Speil
Game play: 2-4 Players
Ages: 6+
Play time: 20 Min.
A flicking game that plays in rounds. One of the players takes the role of the Hall Monitor, whose aim is to catch other penguins and get points.
Educational Value:
Dexterity
Hand/eye coordination
Geometry
Buy Onitama online at BoardGameBliss!
Buy Ice Cool online at BoardGameBliss!
Publisher: Zoch Verlag
Game play: 2-8 Players
Ages: 8+
Play time: 20 Min.
The lightning fast shape and color recognition game that is sure to test the reflexes of kids, families and gamers alike.
Educational Value:
Pattern recognition
Memory
Right brain-left brain processing
BuyGhost Blitz, Ghost Blitz 2, and Ghost Blitz 5 to Midnight at Toytown in Toronto!
Publisher: Winning Moves
Game play: 2-6 Players
Ages: 4+
Play time: 10 Min.
Top Trumps consists of a number of cards, each of which features in-game characters based on related subject matter which are full of stats, pictures and educational and interesting facts. There are many, many versions of this game including: Space (pictured here), Predators, Superheroes, Greek Mythology, Cats ...
Educational Value:
Magnitude
Greater than/less than values
Place Value
Subject specific facts
BuyTop Trumps at Toytown in Toronto!
Publisher: Space Cowboys
Game play: 2-4 Players
Ages: 8+
Play time: 30 Min.
Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops—all in order to acquire the most prestige points.
Educational Value:
Trade
Commerce
Computation (addition/multiplication)
Buy Splendor online at BoardGameBliss!
Publisher: TMG
Game play: 2-5 Players
Ages: 8+
Play time: 20 Min.
This is the final field exam of your bomb disposal training course. The instructor has rigged three training bombs for you and your team to defuse, but little do you know that there is no way to actually defuse them!
Educational Value:
Addition
Multiplication
Division
Rerouping numbers
online at BoardGameBliss!
Publisher: Iello
Game play: 2-5 Players
Ages: 8+
Play time: 40 Min.
In King of Tokyo, you play mutant monsters, gigantic robots, and strange aliens—all of whom are destroying Tokyo and whacking each other in order to become the one and only King of Tokyo.
Educational Value:
Dice probability
Computation
BuyKing of Tokyo online at BoardGameBliss!
Publisher: Pretzel Games
Game play: 2-6 Players
Ages: 8+
Play time: 30 Min.
Junk Art contains more than ten game modes. Players are presented with junk for which they must create art by stacking wooden pieces of different shapes and colours.
Educational Value:
Hand/eye coordination
Building
Problem Solving
Engineering
Dexterity
Buy Junk Art online at BoardGameBliss!