Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Can you win a staring contest? Would your performance be influenced by your eyesight? Find out in this science fair project idea!

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Identifying angles may sound intimidating, but with this exercise, you can turn your child into an expert angler in no time!

As your child plays photographer, snapping pictures around the yard, he'll also be practicing recognizing letter sounds, which will help him learn to read.

This experiment explores how listening in to a one-sided conversation affects concentration.

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

This activity will have your child learning about dependent and independent clauses, not to mention the punctuation that goes in the middle.

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

This science fair project idea examines readersâ expectations in regard to literature.