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Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

Help your child harness her feelings about a favorite city, by using her city knowledge to produce a poetic composition.

Stringing beads helps develop the hand-eye coordination kids need to write, and noodles are sized just right for junior jewelry-makers.

Make this spring break a memorable one by creating a "growth" flower with your child, also great for your second grader's writing practice!

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

The objective of this science fair project idea is to determine if sound travels best through the air, water or a solid.

This science fair project idea explores if people with cool skin tones prefer cool colors and people with warm skin tones prefer warm colors.

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

Here's a review of simile, metaphor, and personification, and a fun, creative writing activity to make things like metaphor a piece of cake!

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Found poetry is a great exercise for kids to practice seeing the beauty and humor in ordinary, everyday language.

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Pasta makes a good dinner, but it can also be used to teach proper letter formation! In this easy crafts activity, you'll use pasta and glue to form letters.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Research optical illusions and human auras. Understand why the probable cause of perception is mach bands.

Use Wallace Steven's "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" to inspire your middle school teen to sketch and free-write a poem with shifting perspective.

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Help your child get the hang of reading with this fun activity. Here's how to make a spinning phonics wheel out of two paper plates.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Children get creative with this fun, imaginative activity that combines an upcycled everyday household item with a few craft supplies.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.