Go Fish Rules For Kids

This article will give you Go Fish Rules for Kids. Go Fish is one of the first card games kids learn to play. It’s an easy game to learn. The mystery of guessing what cards the other players are holding makes it that much more fun.

Games like this offer many other benefits, in addition to the fun. They teach children to follow directions, improve thinking and memory skills, and teach good sportsmanship whether the child wins or loses. Go Fish in particular helps children practice number sense – number recognition, counting, and the concepts of number sets.

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Go Fish Rules for Kids

How to play Go Fish step by step

1. Deal five cards to each player. Be Careful not to let anyone see your cards.
2. Look at the cards in your hand and find all the ones that match. Lay those cards face up on the table.
3. Spread the rest of the cards that weren’t dealt out, into a pile as “the fish pond.”
4. Each player takes turns asking another player for a specific card that matches one of the cards in their hand. The youngest player goes first.
5. If a player is asked for a card that they have in their hand, they hand it to the player who asked for it. If they have more than one, they had over all of them.

6. If the player asked, doesn’t have any of those cards, they say, “Go fish.”
7. If the player who did the asking then draws a card from the pile. If the card they draw is the same as what they asked for, they get another turn. If not, it’s the next person’s turn.

7. The game ends when the last match set is made.
8. All the players count up their sets, and the one with the most sets is the winner.

Go Fish Cards for Kids

While this game can easily be played with a regular deck of cards, you might want a more kid-friendly set of Go Fish Cards. I like Go Fish Untamed Ocean cards because children can play by matching numbers or by matching ocean animals.

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