Ideas and resources
Kid Giddy is such a great resource for parents out there! Here, they’ve posted great Sudoku-kids printables…I love that they use shapes, I have never seen that before. They even mentioned possible holiday versions…so fun to use with children.
Looking for something ready made? Check out this Sudoku for kids books. 
When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.
But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.
What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.
There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.
I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.
This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).
Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.
Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.
[Photo: What We Do All Day]
Wow – you guys don’t waste time getting the word out. Thank you so much for featuring my Sudoku Printables! I will indeed have some holiday ones soon and will also have some Alphabet and Numbers pages too in the near future!
Thanks again for sharing my website! You guys rock! -kg
That looks like a great sudoku game for kids. I love the use of shapes.
I’d prefer the shape Sudoku be made with the shapes and colors used on the pattern blocks we already have in our rooms.
How can I get these puzzles?
The link in the post still works, but when I clicked over I couldn’t see the images there. If you click on the box that looks like it should be a photo, it will take you to the PDF you can print out.