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Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!

Banish your third grader's rainy day boredom by guiding his play group through a collaborative art project that leads up to the unveiling of a crazy creature!

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Put your kid to the test and have him compare and contrast elements in a narrative text by identifying how characters and situations are alike and different.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

In this activity, your child will watch a video about empathy and practice speaking to someone with empathy. They will also discuss how empathy supports living in a community with others.

Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, children reflect on what it means to be caring and to show kindness to others through drawing and performing a kind act of their choosing.

This family yearbook makes a great keepsake that memorializes your year together. Make a family yearbook with your kid to celebrate the passing of a great year.

This simple and fun project introduces kids to the art of pottery and offers them a glimpse into how ancient peoples created the very first Neolithic pottery.

Here's a first grade arts and crafts activity: make pop-up puppets using a plastic cup, wooden dowel, and fabric. Put on a show once you're done!

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

Make the most out of your next wait at the airport by playing Airport Lounge, a fun and creative game of storytelling and make-believe!

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

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 book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

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!

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

For most kids the fun is in the process, and making a dollhouse out of cardboard boxes is as creative as it gets! Here's how to make your own dollhouse.

Check out this hot project idea to culture bacteria and determine if the claims about the anti-bacterial properties of curry and cinnamon are true.

Help your kindergartener use a map to find "leprechaun gold"--and build early social studies skills in the process!

This lucky cake makes the perfect hideout for leprechaun treasure.

Put your teenager in the director's chair by having her put a modern-day spin on Romeo and Juliet.