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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"!

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!

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

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

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

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

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

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.