Here's a list of the best educational nintendo switch games for kids.
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Educational Nintendo Switch Games For Kids

Although it can be easy to think that games are purely for lighthearted fun and entertainment, they can actually be really powerful tools in terms of a child’s educational development.

Turning to gaming to help your kids learn seems a little counter productive don’t you think?! But, playing games is a great way to learn.

Here’s a bunch of the best educational Nintendo Switch games for kids

  1. MathLand
  2. Scribblenauts
  3. FUZE4
  4. Nintendo LABO
  5. KORG Gadget
  6. Numbala
  7. Letter Quest Remastered
  8. Hiragana Pixel Party
  9. Puzzles For Toddlers
  10. Just A Phrase
  11. TryBit Logic

If they are going to spend their evenings in front of the Switch, then they might as well be playing a game that is going to teach them something.

The words education and gaming don’t often go hand in hand. How can games possibly teach my kids anything? Well they can because they’re jam packed with learning challenges and action packed sequences where they won’t even realise they are being taught.

Keeping your children educated and entertained can be a challenge. So, we’ve scoured the Nintendo Switch game library and identified the very best educational Nintendo Switch games for kids. Let’s get into it, read on below.

Educational Nintendo Switch Games

Under each game listed we’ve identified the subjects your child will learn, we’ve also included a button under each game. Just hit the button and it’ll take you straight to the Amazon page or the Official Nintendo Store.

MathLand A Well Made Educational Nintendo Switch Game

First up we have MathLand. And, believe it or not it’s an action, adventure game disguised as a Math game. It’ll help your kids improve their math skill. From very basic arithmetic and understanding different operators all the way up to a more advanced level.

We recently reviewed MathLand, you can find that here. MathLand is a brilliant Educational Game for Kids based on exploration and learning Math.

Pick up a copy of MathLand for your kid today and they’ll learn the main mathematical operations (adding, subtracting, times tables, sorting, negative numbers and dividing).

It’s a brilliant example of how educational gaming for young children can be made fun yet functional, this is how it should be done. It contains many components that are guaranteed to keep your child’s interest with its awesome exploration, collecting gems and basic problem solving elements.

Learning Objectives:

  • Basic Mathematics
  • Mental Arithmetic
  • Math Operators
  • Hand Eye Co-Ordination

Scribblenauts

The game where you write words to create objects in order to solve the puzzles. There are over 22,000 objects in the database so your child will never run out of objects to draw.

It’s a fun puzzle solving game that your kids will be able to play extensively on the Switch. The mega pack comes with some new features that are sure to keep them busy for hours and hours on end.

Scribblenauts is a great educational game that’ll help your kids with their literacy skills and it’ll also improve on vocabulary.

What Will My Kid Learn:

  • Literacy
  • Spelling
  • Vocabulary
  • Writing Skills

FUZE4 – Learn To Code

An example of the games you can make with FUZE4, a great educational game for kids.
An example of the games you can make with FUZE4, a great educational game for kids.

FUZE4 Nintendo Switch is the worlds first coding platform on a handheld games console. It’s available to gamers all over the world. We loved this game so much we gave it a 9/10 in a recent review.

It’s developed by FUZE Technologies and will allow kids to play their own creations. The game is essentially a fully featured development environment that allows you to make your own games.

The game is perfect for kids and adults too! It’ll take some time to get to grips with it but learning to code is a real life skill and you can learn it by playing games!

Learning Objectives:

  • Coding Skills
  • Game Design
  • Math Operators
  • Coding Patterns

Nintendo Labo

Nintendo Labo is an amazing creation and design game for kids! Perfect to learn all about design.
Nintendo Labo is an amazing creation and design game for kids! Perfect to learn all about design.

When Nintendo first introduced the world to LABO, we were slightly apprehensive and thought it was a bit gimmicky. Until we tried it! It’s remarkable. It allows young learners to create, and discover using a variety of hands-on tools and materials. If you buy the Nintendo LABO variety kit you’ll get the game plus the following:

  • Two Toy-Con RC Cars
  • Toy-Con Fishing Rod
  • Toy-Con House
  • Toy-Con Motorbike
  • Toy-Con Piano

That’s enough materials for 5 projects!

We won’t spoil all five projects but here’s an overview of the Toy-Con RC Car project straight from the Nintendo Website:

“The Toy-Con RC Car is powered by vibrations in the Joy-Con controllers and can even follow a path of magnetic tape by using the IR motion camera in the right Joy-Con controller.”

You can create anything you like, the possibilities are endless. The only limit being the players imagination. Embrace open-minded thinking and you’ll be able to create something spectacular.

It’s easy to see why FUZE4 is on our list Nintendo Switch Games For Kids! And it’s available on Amazon at a new low price!

Learning Objectives:

  • Hand Eye Co-Ordination
  • Robotics
  • Engineering
  • Design

KORG Gadget for Nintendo Switch

Music Production on your Switch? A perfect educational game for kids.
Music Production on your Switch? A perfect educational game for kids.

If your kid likes to play games and make music, look no further than KORG Gadget for Nintendo Switch. It’s a music creation game that is as close as you can get to a studio on the Switch.

KORG Gadget is an award-winning music creation programme that’s now available for the Nintendo Switch. There are lots and lots of instrumental gadgets to choose from.

Making music is easy with a simple and intuitive graphical representation of the instrument. Enabling the music creation process to be a speedy one.

The multiplayer mode is a great addition to the game. Your kid and up to four friends can collaborate and make music together. It’s not just suitable for kids though, parents can enjoy it too!

Learning Objectives:

  • Music Production
  • Instrumentation
  • Music Writing
  • Teamwork

Numbala

Numbala takes you on an epic adventure to save your best dog friend. You’ll be chasing the mysterious space whale in this award-winning space shooter. It’s not all adventure and shooting though Numbala is a Maths game.

Learning maths should be fun. And if there were Maths games like this during our day we’d have all got straight A’S!

It is a game that can give your child a confidence boost at school! Numbala is a Math training aid designed to teach kids mathematics.

Numbala has been designed with the help of real life neuroscientists and that game has been tested on more than one hundred children. After playing the game, the results shown an improvement in response time and response correctness. It’s well worth getting!

Your child won’t even realise they are learning!

Learning Objectives:

  • Mathematics
  • Mental Arithmetic
  • Basic Operators
  • Order of Operations

Letter Quest Remastered

Educational Switch Games For Kids don't come much better than this!
Educational Switch Games For Kids don’t come much better than this!

Letter Quest Remastered is an educational turn-based RPG game. It features clever wordplay, amazing music and hi-resolution artwork. The aim of the game is simple, use your linguistic skills to survive!

In order to survive you’ll need to defeat your foes by unlocking upgrades, weapons, books, and more! The game has 40 stages, each stage can be played in 4 different ways. Giving a hell of a lot of gaming content.

Letter Quest Remastered is sure to be a hit among players of all skill levels and all age groups. The best part is, it’s only £2.99 / $2.99 on the Nintendo Store.

Learning Objectives:

  • Wordplay
  • Vocabulary
  • Spelling
  • Linguistics

Hiragana Pixel Party

Learn Japanese with this brilliant party game.
Learn Japanese with this brilliant party game.

It may seem slightly adventurous. But, you can teach your kid some basic Japanese with this awesome game! Hiragana is a rhythm-action Japanese-learning chiptune adventure! A game that also teaches you something!

Learn to read Japanese by playing as Hiragana and Katakana. They are the characters in this fun chiptune adventure! Hiragana is not just for kids that want to try and learn Japanese, it’s a game people of all ages can enjoy!

There are 19 different levels to work your way though. You’ll need to remember patters and repeat them in time to a backing sound track.

You’ll be able to recognize the shapes and sounds of each symbol in the Hiragana and Katakana syllables. By recognizing the symbols you’ll be able to easily read and pronounce Japanese words! A simple idea right! But extremely well executed.

Learning Objectives:

  • Language Skills
  • Basic Japanese Symbols
  • Basic Japanese Language

Puzzles for Toddlers & Kids: Animals, Cars and more

Educational Nintendo Switch Games
Educational Nintendo Switch Games

A really great puzzle game for kids. This easy to use “Drag and Drop” puzzle game is for ages 3 and above. It has over 60 puzzles to complete. By completing the puzzles your kid will learn shapes, hand eye co-ordination and more.

This puzzle game is extremely easy to use and was tailored with great care to be played by children of all ages. Puzzles for Toddlers & Kids has loads of different difficulty settings so that it can entertaining a wide range of age-groups.

Your child will love popping the balloons and bubbles at the end of each level, this adds a sort of reward system to the game! And we all know there is nothing better than popping bubbles!

There are currently two packages that are available and come with the game.

  • Farm Animals
  • Cars and Bikes

It’s the perfect game for young kids! It’s available direct from Nintendo, it’ll be the best £7.99 / $7.99 you’ll ever spend.

Learning Objectives:

  • Hand Eye Co-Ordination
  • Basic Geometry
  • Problem Solving
  • Colours
  • Categorization

Just a Phrase

Just-A-Phrase is a basic yet fun educational game for kids.
Just-A-Phrase is a basic yet fun educational game for kids.

Described as “A hangman-style word game with a twist”. It’s a good game educational for kids.

With 120 puzzles it has enough content to keep your child entertained for 30 minutes or so each day. It’s a really basic game but it’ll help your child start to put together words they may not have know before!

It’s slightly pricey for what it is! But you can’t put a price on education.

Learning Objectives:

  • Vocabulary
  • Anagrams
  • Problem Solving

TryBit Logic

Learn computer programming and basic operators with TryBit!
Learn computer programming and basic operators with TryBit!

The last game on this list is a touch based puzzle game where you can learn all about computer programming.

Trybit Logic is much more than a game. It’s a fantastic educational tool for teaching kids about computing and a go-to application for budding engineering students.

It was first available for iOS and Android but first time Switch developer Himacs’ ported this logic-based puzzler over to the Switch.

The aim of the game is to kill the bugs in your code by using the logic side of your brain.

Learning Objectives:

  • Coding
  • De-Bugging
  • Problem Solving
  • Operators

FAQ’S

If you can’t find an answer to a specific question, drop us a comment below and we’ll try our very best to answer them for you!

How can I find more educational games for kids?

The Nintendo Store has a whole host of categories, including Educational Games. Head on over to the official Nintendo Site if you want to see more games.

What age range are these games suitable for?

From anywhere between the ages of 3 – 13.

Can a 5 year old play the Nintendo Switch?

The Nintendo Switch is as great console for kids. It’s probably the best mainstream console on the market for kids. Outside of specialist brands such as VTech. We’d suggest opting for low skill, high educational games.

What is the best Nintendo switch game for kids?

That’s a tough one to answer. We think that the best one is a game that fits your child’s specific learning circumstances. For example, if you want your child to improve on their math skills, go for something like MathLand.

Are there any free games for kids?

You can check the Nintendo Switch Store and filter by age range and price.

Will my child break the Nintendo Switch?

The Switch is pretty tough! But for safety’s sake we recommend getting a decent case and screen protector. You can find them online by google searching ‘nintendo switch cases’ or ‘nintendo switch screen protectors’

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19 Comments

  1. Switch_Fan

    Howdy just wanted to give you a quick heads up and let you know a few of the pictures aren’t loading correctly.

  2. good list. ignore the other comment saying it’s a poor choice.

  3. Would you recommend any more games?

    • CodeWithMike

      Hi Gabby,

      Yea, we’ll be updating the article in the next week or so with a whole host of additional switch games for kids.

  4. Will these games keep the kids engaged though? Or will they get bored after 5 minutes?

  5. poor choice of games tbh.

  6. thanks for the list, fairly bog standard but it’ll be useful for some.

  7. What about Zelda? Great game for the young ones.

  8. Thanks, I’ll check a few of these out.

  9. Great selection, MathLand looks like a great game for kids!

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