Nature-Inspired Board Games for Kids
These nature-inspired board games for kids are a perfect way to enhance your child’s love of nature while also teaching them through fun!
Getting kids out into nature is a wonderful way for them to learn about the world around them.
Bringing that understanding and appreciation of nature can also be used to help teach them basic math skills preschoolers need. This post contains affiliate links.
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Nature-Inspired Board Games for Kids
Nature-Inspired Board Games for Kids
Winner of Oppenheim Platinum Best Toy Award.
eeBoo's Life on Earth Memory and Matching Game promotes memory and matching skills while teaching children about flora and fauna and other wild life from around the world.
Twenty-four different and colorful illustrations depict animals, leaves, birds, fish and more on sturdy and thick tiles.
A great skill building game that can be played alone or with others.
This memory and matching game will delight children while they practice their memory and focus.
Camp is a game where both children and adults can play and learn fun facts about the great outdoors.
The game is designed to grow with the player, starting at level one questions, which are primarily identification of animals.
As the players increase in their knowledge about the outdoors, they grow into the higher level questions.
A fun and educational game where parents and children can play against each other to get to camp first.
Your forest friends are hungry and they need your help.
Spin the spinner, squeeze the matching colored acorn with your Squirrel Squeezers and place it into your log.
Be the first to fill your log with delicious acorns and you win.
You could also spin “pick an acorn,” “steal an acorn,” or “lose an acorn,” so be strategic, little squirrel.
Trekking the National Parks brings the fun and challenge of modern family board games to your table.
The game was specially designed to be both entertaining and educational.
Every park card features an interesting fact and gorgeous photograph that will inspire players to explore the protected natural wonders of America.
Each game also begins with a unique setup that alters the play experience in surprising ways, allowing for endless re-playability.
Capitalize on the puzzle trend with a first game that includes three adorable puzzles as part of the game.
Players work together in this unique game-and-puzzle combination to spin and add puzzle pieces to the board.
Put the forest animal puzzles together before the rain comes and everyone wins!
Welcome to the world of Photosynthesis, the green strategy board game!
Plant and shape the ever-changing forest as you cultivate your seeds and your strategy.
Take your trees through their life-cycle, from seedling to full bloom to rebirth, and earn points as their leaves collect energy from the revolving sun’s rays.
Carefully pick where you sow and when you grow, as trees in the shadows are blocked from light, and from points.
eeBoo's Gathering a Garden is a simple game that develops basic skills like patience, counting, and an understanding of different categories of plants and gardening-related elements.
This is a perfect game for kids five years old and up.
Bring this board game to family game night! Be the first to fill your garden!
Move around the board collecting garden items from each shopkeeper and be the first to return to plant a garden.
Help nature reclaim what is hers by restoring a polluted valley to its pristine state.
Place your animal dominoes along the course of a brook and replant the surrounding land to score points.
But when is the best moment to plant each of your various plants?
And where are the best spots to do so?
These are the questions you must answer to win.
Snug as a bug in a rug - the snuggle bug matching game!
In this game, which has won multiple awards including the Dr. Toy 10 best educational toys award, players work together to get all the little colorful bugs under the rug before the 3 stink bugs stink up the place!
Watch closely and make those matches!
Aquatica is a deep, but easy to learn family engine builder about underwater kingdoms.
In the game you will become one of the mighty ocean kings, struggling to bring glory to his realm.
To win the game, you need to capture and buy locations, recruit new characters, and complete goals; each of these actions gives you victory points at the end of the game.
The nature game with rules that change like the weather!
In the wild, you have to adapt to survive. Grown from the seeds of EcoFluxx, Nature Fluxx is ready to take root in the game libraries of gamers all over the world.
Full of rules that are constantly changing, Nature Fluxx has players constantly adapting and evolving - just like in nature!
Explore the National Parks in a New Way - Created by National Park enthusiasts, this board game lets you explore all 62 National Parks - from the comfort of your home.
Share your love of the great outdoors and create new memories with a board game that really gets the competitive juices flowing.
Play by traveling across the board, collecting either 1 of every keeper card (aquatic, bird, animal, landmark) or 4 of the same category before your opponents.
This game can be played by adults and younger children too.
There is no reading involved, so it’s a great game for kids of different skill levels.
Matching colors and counting fish are a fun way for kids to strategize while practicing color recognition and counting.
In this color coordinated matching game, players cooperate to help the owls fly back to their nest before the sun comes up. Help all the owls home before sunrise and everyone wins!