Want a word game to play? How about just a fun way to spend the afternoon? Get creative thinking going and have fun with vocabulary!

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.

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

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

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

Make math fun and easy with this activity that challenges your child to use their addition and multiplication skills to win a 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!

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

Have the kids use sidewalk chalk to draw portraits of their family and, in the process, learn about familial relationships.

Your kids will love this tradition of finding a leprechaun's gold hidden all over.

Use old coffee cans and socks to make a beanbag toss game for kids in preschool and kindergarten. This activity is great for math and coordination.

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

Horseshoes makes a perfect family activity for a summer afternoon. With a bit of cardboard and handful of pennies, you can create your own set!

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

Simon Says is a classic outdoor game that young children love. Promote your child's development and improve listening skills by playing the game in a new way.

Try to pop other opponents balloons while trying to protect your own. This exciting game is sure to be a hit with the kids at your next party!

Your little preschool elf will develop some important fine motor skills while creating an entertaining game: Pin the Star on the Christmas Tree!

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

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

Try a fun Mother's Day game for moms and kids to play together!

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Bring the fun carnival game of ring toss to your home pool with this watery twist on the classic game.

Kids put their geography knowledge to the test in this balloon volley game inspired by the Dr. Seuss book "Oh the Places You'll Go".

Build memory and motor skills with this musical movement game!

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

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 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.

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

The next time your kids are pent up inside because of bad weather, try hosting a Balloon Olympics!