Games for executive functions and attention

Executive functions are the skills that organize action: planning, initiating, waiting for your turn, holding information in your head while doing something else, changing strategies when the first one doesn't work, and handling the frustration of a piece that doesn't fit.

What you will find here

Single-player logic games with progressive challenges, board games, dominoes, chess and checkers, observation and memory card games, and sequences and patterns.

Starting alone or in pairs

Single-player games are easier to accept at the beginning: there is no one winning and the solution is on the back of the card. Once waiting for your turn is already possible, board games are naturally introduced.

One level below what it seems

In these games, starting with something too difficult comes at a cost: the child associates the game with failure and will not pick it up again. It is better to start at a comfortable level and move up, even if it seems too easy in the first challenges.