These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Movement activities are crucial for developing minds and bodies. Animal movements, in particular, encourage children to think about their own body mechanics in comparison with animals they may have observed.

Horse chestnuts are inedible, but British children found a fun use for them around the 1840s by turning them into a game called Conkers.

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

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

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

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