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Your child can count down the days until Christmas while giving Santa's beard a trim. This adorable project bolsters counting and number recognition skills.

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!

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Here's an easy project: create a homework helper bookmark so your fourth grader can write down assignments and mark the pages he needs to read.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Encourage your preschooler's creativity with this exciting art project! Every "scratch art" drawing is unique and colorful!

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

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

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

While kids learn when they can see or hear, they learn better when they can touch, too! Get your preschooler's fingers walking the alphabet today!

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

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

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

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

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

The objective of this science fair project is to determine whether drawing with the right side or the left side of your brain will produce a better picture.

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!