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.

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

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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

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

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

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.