Women’s History Month Game for Kids

I feel like school (and parents for that matter) has gotten better at recognizing the accomplishments of women throughout history and making sure that kids know that women were involved in science and art and politics and all the other things throughout history. But Women’s History Month (that’s March, by the way) is a great time to make extra sure these amazing women are learned about and honored.

To that end I wanted to share this amazing Guess Who game full of women from history. This printable game features lovely illustrations of all the women included as well as fact cards to help players figure out who matches to those facts.

The game was designed and is sold by Adventure in a Box, and you can play it with two kids or a group. The extended version printable pack includes rules for playing with a bigger group as well as printable posters for the classroom to help kids learn about these women even when they aren’t playing the game.

It includes 20 women ranging from Murasaki Shikibu (who wrote the world’s first novel) to Marie Curie, Amelia Earhart, Frida Kahlo and Nellie Bly, to name a few.

Just like in the classic Guess Who game, when playing with two players each one has a figure they are trying to guess that the other player can see. They take turns asking yes or no questions to help them eliminate some of the women until they feel like they can guess which one is depicted on their card.

You can learn more about the game in their blog post about it, or buy it here. There’s also a bigger women in history bundle that includes the game, coloring pages, paper dolls, a bingo game and more. You can also grab a printable women’s history coloring page for free if you want to start there.

[Photo: Adventure in a Box]

Growing Up Ladybug and How to Become a Butterfly are both by Stepanka Sekaninova and illustrated by Linh Dao, and they came out at the same time and are on similar themes, so let’s look at them together.

Growing Up Ladybug is narrated by Mariella, a seven-spot ladybug. She talks about the parts of a ladybug, where they live, different kinds of ladybugs, why humans love them, their defenses against predators and the life cycle of a ladybug.

The drawings are cute if not always scientifically accurate, it’s not in such a way that’s likely to confuse kids (who probably already know that ladybug mamas don’t push their larval babies around in strollers, for instance.

It’s a good general description of the life cycle of a lady bug and why we like having them around.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

Similarly, How to Become a Butterfly covers the life cycle of a butterfly, starting with caterpillars eating burning nettle leaves. (Here Amanda is the narrator.) The book talks about a few of the more than 18,000 daytime butterflies in the world as well as other creatures that live in the meadow (there’s that ladybug again, along with crickets, bees and other bugs).

It also covers some of the enemies of caterpillars like wasps and spiders, and the defenses that caterpillars use to try to prevent being eaten. It illustrates how caterpillars grow and change as they molt and prepare to pupate, and what a caterpillar looks like before and while it is forming its chrysalis. And while the book uses the word metamorphasis it doesn’t really talk about what happens between the caterpillar forming a chrysalis and the butterfly hatching.

This butterfly is a peacock butterfly, and once it hatches the book covers the parts of a butterfly and the life cycle. It also talks about nocturnal moths (though it says nocturnal butterflies are “usually called moths” when moths are actually a different species) and what butterflies do at night.

I’m maybe a little hard on this book because my daughter is a butterfly expert from way back, but it is still cute and good for the very basic basics of the butterfly life cycle.

Both books would be fun additions to your bookshelf for younger kids starting to learn about different animals or who have an interest in insects.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

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