Horseshoes makes a perfect family activity for a summer afternoon. With a bit of cardboard and handful of pennies, you can create your own set!

If you have a young child who loves physical stunts, try making these coffee-can stilts for backyard fun.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a few riotous rounds of Hot Potato--played with a real potato!

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

Kids get in lots of letter learning as they play this fun twist on regular tag, which engages their minds as well as their bodies.

It's important to be able to add and subtract quickly and accurately, and this activity is the perfect way to practice.

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

Give your child a chance to feel like important airport personnel and learn a whole host of skills while he's at it!

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

Take the classic game to a new level, by including super fun directions inside the chalk-drawn boxes.

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

Introduce your youngster to this Japanese version of Pin the Tail on the Donkey.

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

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

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

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.

Celebrate your little one's move to big kid school by throwing a very special graduation party complete with friends, crafts, and lots of energetic fun.

Throw a P.E. party in your own backyard that will make fitness fun!

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.

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

Improve your kindergartener's vocabulary with this fun, quick, and simple improvisation activity! He'll love acting while practicing directionality words.

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

Introduce your fifth grader to the Kinara, part of the Kwanzaa tradition, by playing this fast-paced, two player game!

Help your teen make a custom, handmade hula hoop. It's sure to fit perfectly, and she can personalize it with colored tape to make it her own!

Get your 4th-7th grade child outside with this fast-paced twist on the classic game of tag. This activity provides good cardiovascular exercise.

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!

Compare fractions in this two-player math game. The objective of the games is to work together to determine who has created the largest fraction.

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"!

Homophones are those tricky little words that tend to confound early learners. Help your second grader ace the challenge with this outdoor game.