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

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.

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

Play Number Dash with your preschooler and help them learn to identify numbers, write numbers and learn about organized play.

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

In this activity your little one will throw a beanbag at a numbered target to help improve their number recognition skills.

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

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

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

This copying game is like a hopped up version of Simon Says, but it lets kids use their bodies to practice patterning, a key skill in early math.

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

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.

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

This fun math game will help develop your child's counting skills and number recognition skills.

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

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

This variation on the classic group game "Mother, May I?" can be played with one or more child and involves continual participation.

When it comes to working kids' muscles, nothing beats an obstacle course! Here are some easy ideas for creating your own course at home.

Build memory and motor skills with this musical movement game!

In this variation on musical chairs, no one gets kicked "out" of the game -- instead, they get to tell other kids what to do!

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

Preschoolers need to practice hopping, skipping, and other "gross motor" skills. Why not make it fun by challenging them to move like their favorite animals?

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

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

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

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!

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

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!