Card Games

Materials needed to play the games

The games in this packet require one full deck of cards (52 cards).  The games are played without Jokers. Some of the games require counters (e.g. beans, pennies and coins, or buttons) and paper and pencil to assist with scoring.  The needed materials are listed in the game’s instructions. Click here for other homemade learning games.

Computation Add and Subtract (8 years old and up) All Fours (9 years old and up) Finders Keepers (5 years old and up) Hit the Mark (6-12 years old) Knuckles (6-12 years old) Multiplication Rummy (9 years old and up) Ninety-nine (8-12 years old) Odds and Evens (6-12 years old) Secret (8 years old and up) Twenty-one (6 years old and up) Variations of War (5 years old and up) Number Sense and Sequencing Accordion (4 years old and up) Crazy 8’s (4 – 7 years old) Digit Game (7 -12 years old) Donkey (5-12 years old) In Between (5 years old and up) King's Corner (7 years old and up) King’s Market (6 years old and up) Pay or Play (4-7 years old) Seven-up (4-12 years old) Speed aka. Spit (6 years old and up) Number Recognition Go Fish (4 years old and up) Mau Mau (5 years old and up) Memory (3 years old and up) Old Maid (4 years old and up) Saskatchewan (4 - 7 years old) Snap (4-7 years old) Stealing Bundles (4 years old and up) Suck the Well (5 years old and up) War (4 years old and up) Categorizing and Number Sets Ace-Deuce (6 years old and up) Basic Rummy (7 years old and up) Black Maria (7 years old and up) Switch (5-12 years old) Visual Scanning, Spatial Skills, and Logic Beggar My Neighbor (5 years old and up) Four in a Row (5 years old and up) Hop-Along (6 years old and up) Spoof (5 years old and up)