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!

What better way to raise awareness about the environment than with an eco-friendly Earth-themed party? Get your party started with this step-by-step guide.

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

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!

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.

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

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

Nothing chases the blues away like a trip to the boardwalk. Bring the fun home with this do-it-yourself version that sneaks in some math practice.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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:

Understanding how a map works is tricky for kids, so why not make it into a fun activity for the whole family?

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.

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.

Are you looking to entertain your child and a large group of their friends? Try out Chain Tag. The more players you have, the more fun the game becomes!

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

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

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

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.

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

Encourage a group of third graders to play this fun game of Whistle Hide-and-Seek as a warm-up to get them prepared for finding a "lost" camper.

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

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

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

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

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.