Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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