Looking for hot weather fun? Cool the kids down with a homemade slip and slide! You can create your own water park atmosphere for just a few bucks.

This zany guessing game asks your first grader to tap into her deductive reasoning skills to guess an activity or object.

Honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this hands-on lesson in how all of us are more alike than different, especially on the inside.

Help your preschooler combine a lesson about numbers with a silly, snowy game of hopscotch.

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.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

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.

Use sticks and stones to create create an outdoor version of tic-tac-toe!

Use empty soda bottles to create a fun bowling set that helps your first grader practice addition 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.

Mix fun with basic math in this fun homemade game of ring toss! Make rings out of paper plates and you're ready to play anytime, anywhere!

The next time your kids are pent up inside because of bad weather, try hosting a Balloon Olympics!

Have the kids use sidewalk chalk to draw portraits of their family and, in the process, learn about familial relationships.

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

This engaging outdoor game is a blind obstacle course to help your Kindergarten aged child learn to follow directions.

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

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with this outdoor group ball game that's similar to Four Square.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!