Petanque, a traditional French lawn game, is a wonderful activity to entertain groups of kids and help them learn a little bit about other cultures.

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

Toss playing cards into boxes while you practice addition and multiplication with decimals in this fun, fifth grade math game.

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!

Firefly flash tag is a great way to get your kids outdoors and running around during the dog days (or nights) of summer.

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

Get your creative kid into tasseography! The ancient art of reading tea leaves gets a modern update in this simplified version for youthful fortune tellers!

Turn any sunny summer day into a fun and special occasion by having a watermelon seed spitting contest!

Cool down this summer and stay active, too, with a wet clothes relay! 

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

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