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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.

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

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

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

This is a great activity for when the kids get a little stir crazy. It works indoors or out.

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

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

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

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

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

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.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

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

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

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!

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.

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."

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

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

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

Why not change things up a bit with this fun way of making those loop-hole bunny ears that sit at the top of his sneakers.

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!

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with this outdoor group ball game that's similar to Four Square.

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with these fun dribbling drills! Before you know it he'll be a ball-handling master.

Your first grader will love telling time while playing this fun game of tag! Ask Captain Midnight for the time, but watch out when his watch says "midnight"!

This zany guessing game asks your first grader to tap into her deductive reasoning skills to guess an activity or object.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

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