Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

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

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

Review fractions with your budding mathematician when you play this fun, educational math board game.

Math Facts Game: A mix of musical chairs and Twister meets math. Nipping multiplication problems in the bud was never this much fun!

Use old coffee cans and socks to make a beanbag toss game for kids in preschool and kindergarten. This activity is great for math and coordination.

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.

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

It's easy to turn old magazines into a fast-and-furious finding game that's both fun and educational for kids.

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

Turn wait time in the doctor's office or travel time in the car into fun time with your own version of I Spy.

Help your second grader make his own badminton set--out of your old pantyhose! He'll delight in his crafty independence, and you'll love saving money.