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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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

A car game for road trips with children.

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

Here are two fun, rhythmic jump rope chants to help your first grader learn the days of the week, practice reading skills, and stay fit!

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Play this fun game with your kindergarten or first grader. It's a great way to practice important math skills, including counting and addition.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

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

Your child will "catch" snowballs with each correct math equation she can answer correctly. If she solves a problem correctly, she gets to keep the snowballs.

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.