It’s no surprise, well maybe it is to you all, but not to those who know me, that Geography is not my favorite subject. In fact, so far, I have done the minimum to get by in our schooling efforts.

Oh sure, my kids have learned how to read maps and know what the parts of a map are, but we haven’t really done much in the way of global work. Geography can be hard, and boring! But there are definitely ways, just like every other subject, to pep it up and make it interesting!

That’s exactly why I’m sharing my favorite ways to make geography fun for kids! If you’re like me, you may no longer dread the task of teaching geography when it becomes both a learning and fun experience for the whole family!

Awesome Ways to Make Geography Fun for Kids

Make it a Part of Daily Life

When you make learning a part of your everyday life, it becomes easier to teach and understand. This can be as simple as making your children aware of where they are going every time you get in the car. you can give them information like the direction you’re traveling, using physical landmarks and buildings to describe how to get there, and including important details about the landscape. 

Maybe you can buy a local map and physically map out the route that you’ll be taking to get there; be sure to make it a point to talk about the highways and the important historical figures and monuments that may be there. Including fun and silly facts can be a great way to help them remember locations!

If you’re a road family, like us, geography can be an easy subject to teach when your surroundings change so often! Actually visiting the places that you’re learning about can be life-changing!

If you’re Christians, you can also talk to some missionaries that you know so that they can help with the immersive cultural experience! This last one is two-fold because you can map out where the missionaries are or have been, and be sure that you pray for them often!

Hands-On Activities

What better way to help encourage your kids to learn more than to actually participate in a hands-on activity? Research proves that performing actions and creating memories around specific subjects are great tools to encourage comprehension and an inquisitive spirit. 

Think about ways that you can tie in specific areas, cultures, and cuisines of the geographical locations that you’re learning about. Maybe you’ll want to act out a certain scenario (getting lost in a dessert or meeting the king of _), you could cook a meal using native spices, or even dress like they do in other cultures. 

Lifeschooling options are truly limitless, and using these activities that are centered around the areas you’re learning about is a great way to make geography fun for kids!

Geography Games

I love including games in our homeschool! There are some great opportunities to learn about geography with memory games, board games, card games, and more! 

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We don’t have a lot of space while we’re roadschooling, so we have to get a little creative when it comes to our games and activities. But, an easy game that you can play anytime is what I like to call Word Pictionary.

Simply choose one person to describe a place using as few words as possible and everyone begins guessing what place it is. You can use more words if people are off base, but the less specific the better, so that place can be described again! It also makes you think harder! The first person to guess correctly, get’s to start describing their own place next time. 

Crafting

Another hands-on way to get kids interested in geography is to make crafts! Creating replicas of countries, or states, with different craft material, or making landscapes and famous landmarks are other ways to help really drive home regional facts. 

You can use anything from building blocks and legos, to pen and paper, colors, mosaics, even paints. Or you can use play-doh, craft sticks, and clay. You can even go on to paper mache and real-life replicas if you’re into that sort of thing.

Start small and then building up to those larger projects (like replicas) are great activities to wrap up your geographical studies as well!

Do you have any special ways to make geography fun for kids? I’d love to hear them!

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