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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.

With this "tightrope" game, your child will practice balancing skills and gain experience with the directions forward, backward, and sideways.

This outdoor game will help your child practice observational skills and visual identification while working in some exercise, too!

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

Build memory and motor skills with this musical movement game!

Make matzoh more fun! Help your preschooler or kindergartener design a matzoh puzzle from broken pieces of the flatbread.

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

Treasure hunts are tons of fun and they're a great way to introduce maps. Set the stage, and your kid's imagination will do the rest.

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

Your child will learn more about coins and their denominations as he's asked to identify similar coins.

Your child will begin to recognize written color names as she looks at the different patterns and matches them up with the correct colors.

In this game, your child and his friends will need to use their observational skills as they try to figure out who's got the peanut!

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

How do you spell fun and learning? B-I-N-G-O! Children learn through play. And letter or number bingo is a great place to start.

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

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

In this leap frog activity, your child will use her muscles to jump over her friends and onto lily pads as she practices number recognition.

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

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

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

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.

Make your own volleyball net! This beach ball game is a great activity for kids of all ages to develop coordination and teamwork.

Strengthen your child's number recognition skills with this fun game using an old, empty egg carton!

Healthy eating may sound dull to kids, but it doesn't have to be boring. Add a little pizzazz to snack time by holding a snack hunt!

Help your preschooler practice counting, matching, and learning colors with this fun game!

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?

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!

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.

This is an easy counting game for preschoolers and toddlers. Great for car trips!

Practice counting, sequencing, and pattern recognition with your young learner in this fun math card game!