Most seven-year-olds enjoy games that let them compete with others or against themselves, apply their ever-expanding skills and knowledge, and have fun. These brilliant educational games make great picks for seven-year-old children, as they allow them to do all of these things and more!
Learning through play obviously makes learning more fun and helps children practise what they’ve covered in school, but playing games also helps kids develop many important skills and abilities they will use throughout their lives. Engaging in game play builds memory, concentration, problem-solving and strategic thinking abilities. Games help support children’s independent reading, and playing multiplayer games builds and supports verbal communication and social skills. Subject-specific games also build children’s confidence and knowledge in key subject areas, such as maths, history, geography and science.
Here are our top picks for brainy games that make learning fun. They make great gifts too!
Top Tried & Tested Games
- Amazing Animals – Rank Up!
- Bananagrams Duel – The Word Game
- IQ Puzzler Pro
- Scabs ‘N’ Guts – Yucky Board Game!
- Splendid Spelling – Roald Dahl’s Matilda
- Go Genius World – Geography Game
- Animal Alphabet Topple Tower – 6 Games in 1
- Charlie & the Chocolate Factory – Marvellous Maths
1 Amazing Animals – Rank Up! , £8.99 £8.99
Go head to head comparing stats for 75 awesome animals
This fun card game has the time-tested Trumps format… with a brilliant animal twist. Ideal for 2 to 5 players, go head to head as you compare the stats of 75 cool creatures, from Anteater to Zebra. You’re sure to learn something brilliant along the way – like the fact that there are more than 43,000 species of snail!
2 Bananagrams Duel – The Word Game , £9.99 £9.99
Fast, fun-filled scrabble-styled word game
This fun two-player game is sure to put your word skills to the test. Two players face-off in a race to build their own word grid, similar to a crossword, using the 24 letter cubes. Designed to take with you for play on the go, Bananagrams Duel includes fun banana-shaped theme cards for an added challenge during every round of play. Brilliantly entertaining, strangely addictive and very competitive – who’s the Top Banana?
3 IQ Puzzler Pro , £15.95 £15.95
A brilliant brain-teaser!
Know a child who loves a challenge? They’ll be busy for hours with this highly entertaining 2D and 3D brain teaser! The game uses combinations of coloured balls to test your skills and brainpower as you build the constructed designs from the enclosed booklet. With 120 challenges ranging from easy to expert, this set will help brainy kids build that genius IQ!
4 Scabs ‘N’ Guts – Yucky Board Game! , £21.99 £21.99
Answer gross questions about the human body & discover cool new facts
All about the fascinating human body, race around the board answering multiple choice questions and learning yucky new facts. Did you know that the femur is stronger than concrete, babies are born without kneecaps, or that the average person farts 14 times a day? With organs as playing pieces and wild cards that get you completing silly tasks – like trying to fit your elbow into your ear! Just what the doctor ordered!
5 Splendid Spelling – Roald Dahl’s Matilda , £9.99 £9.99
Three fun word games from the world of Roald Dahl
Entertaining set of card games based on the author’s famous Matilda, who has a passion for reading. Use the 100 letter cards in three fun games to practice your spelling – collect letters to make simple words, create a word grid or layer them up. Play games against the timer and collect Bookworm cards to prove you’re the brainiest of the bunch!
6 Go Genius World – Geography Game , £21.99 £21.99
The Ultimate Geography Game
Great for children to learn about different countries and capitals whilst playing. Travel around the board answering multiple choice questions, from capitals and countries to the tallest mountains and saltiest seas! Can you name the longest river in the world? Or which country Komodo dragons come from? For 2 to 4 players, great fun to play, the winner earning a well deserved genius stamp in your game passport. Top of the World!
6 Animal Alphabet – Wooden Topple Tower with 6 Games , £19.99 £19.99
Endless educational fun
We all know that children love blocks, and this animal-decorated STEM set gives them an educational twist! The set contains 51 colourful wooden blocks and six different games to play, including Topple Tower, which uses the included dice or the 26 animal alphabet cards to determine which block to move. Of course, this set is also excellent for hands-on imaginative play and building, and seven-year-olds will love the adorable animals and tactile wood. Lovely!
7 Charlie & the Chocolate Factory – Marvellous Maths , £9.99 £9.99
Fun and educational, this entertaining set of card games is based on Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. Use the 100 number cards in three fun games to challenge your maths skills. Be first to countdown your cards to be closest to zero, race through the times tables, or speed through collecting Golden Tickets and prove you’re the brainiest of the bunch! Specially designed for Key Stage 1 and 2, perfect for Wonka fans – swashboggling!
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