Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

This year, celebrate Father's Day with three hilarious outdoor family games.

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?

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Try to pop other opponents balloons while trying to protect your own. This exciting game is sure to be a hit with the kids at your next party!

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

Next time your child says he's bored, suggest a game of Toe Fencing! It's a silly and physical game that can be played anywhere, any time.

Help your child get comfortable with the concept of estimation, which will come in handy during everything from standardized tests to future shopping trips!

Exponents can be tricky to learn. Fortunately this game provides plenty of multiplication practice for your math student!

Competitors go head-to-head only this time it's a race to figure out the lowest common multiple of two numbers; an important step to working with fractions!

Challenge your third grader and a few friends to teamwork and laughs with these boisterous indoor Christmas games.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

Be active while learning about American history with this twist on the classic running game "Capture the Flag."

Picnic getting boring? Here's a fun game that gets the kids moving around, and doing a little addition while they're at it.

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

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.

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

Looking for something to do on a slow afternoon? Try cornhole, a simple and fun tossing game. Make your own set with a few things from the recycling bin.

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

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

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.

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.

This variation on the game of tag combines exercise, teamwork, and a little friendly trickery.

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

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

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

The next time you're trapped indoors on a dreary day, try this take on dodgeball. All you need are a group of kids, an open area and a soft, spongy ball.

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