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.

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

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.

Host a royal party full of "please and thank you" - even the queen would approve. Have a ball while your kids practice etiquette!

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

Teach an important and often comical historical lesson with a prediction game that teaches youngsters about the fallibility of word-of-mouth talk.

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!

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