Mix fun with basic math in this fun homemade game of ring toss! Make rings out of paper plates and you're ready to play anytime, anywhere!

Be active while learning about American history with this twist on the classic running game "Capture the Flag."

Looking for something to do on a slow afternoon? Try cornhole, a simple and fun tossing game. Make your own set with a few things from the recycling bin.

With this "tightrope" game, your child will practice balancing skills and gain experience with the directions forward, backward, and sideways.

The human knot game is a perfect team-building exercise and a fun activity that's sure to bring lots of laughs along the way.

Does your child have trouble holding a pencil? Is writing an excruciating task? The key is to build up those hand muscles! This water relay race can help.

Kids get to play mad scientist in this wacky drawing game that's a great way to help kids to mellow out after the high-energy antics of recess.

Kids will love this more challenging version of tag where they'll have to run while "attached" to someone else.

Horse chestnuts are inedible, but British children found a fun use for them around the 1840s by turning them into a game called Conkers.

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

Help your first grade reader understand verbs by doing them in this boisterous playground relay race.

Celebrate your little one's move to big kid school by throwing a very special graduation party complete with friends, crafts, and lots of energetic fun.

This circle game practices patterning and flexes your child's memory.

Little kids love this messy but fun Easter party game: bob for chocolate Easter eggs in a giant blob of whipped cream. The first one to find all her eggs wins!

Next time your child says he's bored, suggest a game of Toe Fencing! It's a silly and physical game that can be played anywhere, any time.

Host a royal party full of "please and thank you" - even the queen would approve. Have a ball while your kids practice etiquette!

Challenge your third grader and a few friends to teamwork and laughs with these boisterous indoor Christmas games.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Picnic getting boring? Here's a fun game that gets the kids moving around, and doing a little addition while they're at it.

Frisbee golf is a game that incorporates the rules of golf with the fun of frisbee. Here's how to get started with your child:

Homophones are those tricky little words that tend to confound early learners. Help your second grader ace the challenge with this outdoor game.

Help your teen make a custom, handmade hula hoop. It's sure to fit perfectly, and she can personalize it with colored tape to make it her own!

Your child will need to combine his sporty hand-eye coordination skills with his math skills to become the bullseye king.

Teach an important and often comical historical lesson with a prediction game that teaches youngsters about the fallibility of word-of-mouth talk.

This copying game is like a hopped up version of Simon Says, but it lets kids use their bodies to practice patterning, a key skill in early math.

Introduce your fifth grader (and friends) to a unique Jewish tradition by paying homage to the Maccabiah games by engaging them in their own makeshift games!

This outdoor game will help your child practice observational skills and visual identification while working in some exercise, too!

Are you sneaky, sneaky? You'll have to be when your play this fun game involving squirt guns and blindfolds that'll test your child's stealth.

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

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