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

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

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 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.

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

Improve your kindergartener's vocabulary with this fun, quick, and simple improvisation activity! He'll love acting while practicing directionality words.

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

Do a little kitchen chemistry as you make your own bubble solution and bubble-wand shapes!

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.

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

Help your child stay physically and mentally active with this group aerobic fitness game that's good for the heart and mind alike.

If you have a young child who loves physical stunts, try making these coffee-can stilts for backyard fun.

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.

Celebrate Read Across America Day with your kindergartener by playing an alphabet balloon volley game inspired by "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" by Dr. Seuss.

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

This fun math game will help develop your child's counting skills and number recognition skills.

In this activity your little one will throw a beanbag at a numbered target to help improve their number recognition skills.

This is an easy counting game for preschoolers and toddlers. Great for car trips!

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.

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

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!

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

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.

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!

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