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If you are looking for a very educational Facebook game to play along with your children, then Farmville is a very solid choice. The game is fun for all ages and is non-violent. Animals are not slaughtered but are used as a resource for eggs, down, horsehair, milk and other items. You build the farm the way you see fit.

There are numerous trees that will yield fruit. There are buildings and other items to add to the farm. The game is a useful math teacher in that you need to understand the clock and the yield for crops when buying the seeds. Planting strawberries before the children go to bed will result in a wilted crop because they grow fully in 4 hours so you need to look for crops that plant in daily cycles if the children are going to play this game at roughly the same time each day.

There is also a spirit of cooperation amongst players where you can help the other players  with their farms in tasks like weeding, raking leaves and ridding the fields of crows. All of these pay a small reward for your efforts and can only be done periodically.

Patience is required to watch the farm grow. One of the very good features of this game is that nothing is fixed in position so anything can be moved around over time. You can delete a piece of land if you don’t want it there anymore. A good time is when the crop has been harvested.

The player also has the opportunity to send gifts to other players (free) and invite them to be neighbours. Although the game has limited penalties, it still has some features that come into play for neglect so it does teach some real life values.

The game is actually fairly simplistic so it doesn’t take a genius to play it and it is flexible enough that any child can make it what they want. It is a lot like a digital set of building blocks with the added advantage that it helps with dexterity and physical placement skills. It is simply a fun type game for just about anyone.

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