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This twist on the same old Hide and Seek is a great weekend or rainy-day activity.

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

Looking for hot weather fun? Cool the kids down with a homemade slip and slide! You can create your own water park atmosphere for just a few bucks.

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

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

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

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.

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

Encourage your child to practice skip counting by turning number patterns into this fun and interactive game of catch.

Before hitting the road this summer, arm yourself with Straight Face, a game guaranteed to turn bored frowns into happy grins and giggles.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

This activity is a craft project and a math workshop all in one! Use found objects to encourage your child to imitate, extend, and create patterns.

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

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

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

Head out to the driveway, ball in hand, for a bouncing challenge. Then use those results to make a colorful graph that lets your child compare results.

Invite your first grader to play this subtraction sacks game to get her actively involved in understanding and memorizing subtraction facts.

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

Your mother is a treasure, so celebrate her with a fun Motherâs Day Treasure Hunt.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

It's easy to turn old magazines into a fast-and-furious finding game that's both fun and educational for kids.

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

Turn printed family photos into a sturdy "flash card" game to help your child learn the names and faces of near and distant relatives.

Creating number patterns with pencil and paper can be dull, but creating hopscotch pattern can bring exciting math learning!

This fresh take on the classic game of Tic-Tac-Toe will boost your first grader's creativity, fine motor skills, and concept of taking turns.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

It's easy to be a master Italian chef with this target practice game played with a pizza board constructed out of felt and Velcro bean bag "toppings."

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

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

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