In this leap frog activity, your child will use their muscles to jump over friends and onto lily pads as they practices number recognition.

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.

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 them.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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.

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

Throw a P.E. party in your own backyard that will make fitness fun!

This variation of Duck, Duck, Goose is played in pairs, which means a lot more activity for participants!

This Valentine's Day, promote strong hearts with an active relay that the whole family can enjoy! It's light on the wallet, but heavy on heart health.

Math Facts Game: A mix of musical chairs and Twister meets math. Nipping multiplication problems in the bud was never this much fun!

Take the classic game to a new level, by including super fun directions inside the chalk-drawn boxes.

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

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!

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?

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

In this variation on musical chairs, no one gets kicked "out" of the game -- instead, they get to tell other kids what to do!

Bring the classic game of "Red Rover" up to date with color and shape recognition skills for your child.

The next time you're trapped indoors on a dreary day, try this take on dodgeball. All you need are a group of kids, an open area and a soft, spongy ball.

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

Have a blast celebrating the poetic prose of Dr. Seuss as you hop your way to better vocabulary and reading skills. Play Hop on Pop Hopscotch!

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Like "Mother, May I?", this following directions tag game focuses on gross motor skills, but to the theme Itsy Bitsy Spider. Fun indoors or outside!

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged 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.