The next time your kids are pent up inside because of bad weather, try hosting a Balloon Olympics!

Develop your kindergartener's fine motor skills while tracing shadows on a sunny day with this fun kindergarten activity.

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

Catch the dance mash fever with this catchy and foot-tapping activity that's all about movement and Halloween fun!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Help your preschooler combine a lesson about numbers with a silly, snowy game of hopscotch.

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!

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"!

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

Your children will squeal with delight when they discover all the mishaps that come about after a visit from the leprechaun.

Little kids love this messy but fun Easter party game: bob for chocolate Easter eggs in a giant blob of whipped cream. The first one to find all her eggs wins!

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

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a few riotous rounds of Hot Potato--played with a real potato!

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

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

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.

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

Entertain your next batch of energetic youngsters with a Halloween-inspired candy hunt!

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

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

This hunting game is just as fun outdoors as it is inside. And while they'll never suspect they're learning, it helps kids develop listening skills, too!

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