The 10 Best Educational Games For Preschoolers
Special Honors
ABC Mouse This learning academy is accessible online or through the company's app on any mobile device. It's designed to be introduced to kids as young as two years old, and to stay with them on their early educational journey until they're about eight. Yearly subscriptions are reasonably priced for the hundreds of lessons through which your kids will be able to play. abcmouse.com
ABC Ya With complete mobile access on up to five devices, this company offers a slew of titles designed to teach your kids letters and words, math and numbers, strategies, skills, and more. There's even a themed holiday section to reinforce how the lessons they learn have real world applications. abcya.com
Lingo Kids Whether you child is growing up in a non-English-speaking country or in a multilingual household, this gaming program builds fantastic English skills for kids with the help of fun and engaging lessons. The drawings of animals involved are incredibly cute, as well. lingokids.com
Editor's Notes
July 12, 2019:
Part of the challenge in curating this list was ensuring that a given game could be considered educational. We wanted to make sure that there was some learning value, even if it was something as simple as color matching or coordination. Where's The Bear at number two is one example of a product that toes this line pretty closely, but we ultimately decided that — since its base age is just two years old — its ability to create a sense of object permanence and teach kids about the divisions of space within a household were enough to earn it a spot. Educational value couldn't be our only criterion here, however, as things like the actual potential for fun had to be considered. These are games after all, and no one stands to learn anything if the kids don't want to play them. To that end, something like Boggle Jr., which offers a tiered approach to learning letters and four-letter words associated with pictures, couldn't get higher than the ninth spot because it was a little too dry.