Cooperative Games

Cooperative games are like competitive games in that all players take individual turns. They are unlike competitive games in that all players are working together to achieve a common goal. Everyone either wins as a group or loses as a group. Cooperative games can help develop skills like working together as a team, planning strategies together, presenting your and considering other's reasoning and coming to a group decision. Research is showing kids can gain positive benefits from playing cooperative games. I posted a link to an interesting article at the bottom of this post.


Stone Soup - Help make the soup before the fire goes out.

Snug as a Bug in a Rug - Get the colorful bugs safely hidden under the rug before the stinkbugs all land on top of the rug.

Hoot Owl Hoot! - Get the owls back to the nest before the sun comes up.

Count Your Chickens - Return the chicks to the coop before mother hen arrives at the coop.

Obstacles - Figure out how to get past the creative obstacles to get back home.

Max - Get all the small creatures safely back to the big tree before Max can find them.

Willy's Wiggly Web - Cut all the bugs out of the spider web without making the spider fall out.

The Orchard - Harvest the fruit before the raven has a chance to eat it all.

Here's an interested article I read from Parenting Science entitled Cooperative Board Games for Kids that talks about how kids benefit from playing cooperative games. To read it, click here.