Best Family Games & Activities - 8-Year Olds

Family favorites make great gifts for the eight-year-old on your list

We've chosen a variety of family favorites that make great gifts to make shopping easier for you! If your family loves game night then our original Leaps and Ledges will be instant favorite. Of course many families like the classics like LineUp, Memory Mix Up and Animal Trivia Challenge. But the great gifts don't stop there. The Butterfly Pavilion and the Rainbow LED Ant Habitat make great gifts for those scientific eight-year-olds on your list. For the outdoors enthusiast try the NightBall Light-Up Football.

When it comes to great gifts for 8-year-olds, try a fun family game like our challenging Leaps and Ledges game that gets the whole family competing in 3D!

The Rainbow LED Ant Habitat is one of the coolest gifts out there. The Habitat comes with a special space gel that is both a zero-gravity tunneling medium and food for the ant colony (so no food or water needed)! Kids love to watch the ants working in teams to create intricate tunnels; LEDs in the habitat base rotate through the color spectrum giving kids a spectacular illuminated display. While the Butterfly Pavilion unlocks the secrets of metamorphosis for kids.

Have a child interested in working in wood? Here's a great gift! The 4-in-1 Cool Tool Workshop let's young carpenters create and build real wooden projects using this combination drill press, jigsaw, sander and lathe. This wood working equipment performs like the real thing, but with rigorous safety standards built in for kids ages 8 and up.

The Play and Freeze Soft Shell Ice Cream Maker provides the science of heat transfer while serving up loads of cooking fun. Food fun makes a great gift for kids of all ages.