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Hands-on Games for Kids

Check out these great hands-on games that kids can play in the classroom, on the playground, or at home for an afternoon of educational fun! Little learners can review sight words, consonant blends, important math skills, logical reasoning and much more with these fantastic hands-on games that can typically be enjoyed with common household materials such as playing cards, construction paper, or sidewalk chalk.

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Exercise...with Dice!

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

Play Story Ball: A Reading Comprehension Game

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Play Rattlesnake Relay

Need an outdoor activity for your next party or family gathering? Try this wacky group relay game that's fun for adults and kids alike.

Practice Reading with a Word Hunt

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

Work on division with remainders in this fun fourth grade math board game.

Probability Card Game

Being able to guess the likelihood of an event is a useful skill. Discuss probability with your kid as you play this fun math card game!

"Bump!" A Spelling Game

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Play Punctuation Red Light, Green Light

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Following directions is a key kindergarten skill. This blind obstacle course turns the art of listening into an outdoor game.

Money Tic Tac Toe

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of Tic-Tac-Toe.

Play Twist 'N Turn!

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

Phonics Scavenger Hunt!

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around her.

Practice multiplication facts by playing baseball in this fun, third grade math board game.

Over and Out! 2 Great Obstacle Courses

When it comes to working kids' muscles, nothing beats an obstacle course! Here are some easy ideas for creating your own course at home.

Forms of Energy for Kids

This exploration of different types of energy will help young minds appreciate and observe thermal, kinetic, mechanical, and other forms of energy.

Jumping Bean Phonics

This cute game that lets your child practice making words, while acting like a Mexican jumping bean! Great for emerging readers.

Metric Conversion Game

Making metric conversions is a difficult concept to master. Get in some extra practice by playing this Tic-Tac-Toe game with your middle school student.

Tell a Story in a Jar!

Try these story starters - creativity and sequencing skills combine to create wild stories that will have the whole family in stitches!

Place Value Game

Try this fun math card game and practice place value with your second grader! Decide which number is bigger in order to earn points!

Measurement Conversion Game

Practice conversions within the metric system in this fun math card game for third graders.

Play Animal Exercises

Preschoolers need to practice hopping, skipping, and other "gross motor" skills. Why not make it fun by challenging them to move like their favorite animals?

Play Common Denominator War

Competitors go head-to-head only this time it's a race to figure out the lowest common multiple of two numbers; an important step to working with fractions!

Homemade Letter Bingo

How do you spell fun and learning? B-I-N-G-O! Children learn through play. And letter or number bingo is a great place to start.

This fun, addition focused take on the classic card game War is a great way to help your child get a strong hold on addition.

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