Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

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

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Make your own personalized set of letter flash cards to get him thinking about the alphabet while boosting his fine motor skills in the process.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

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

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

After the party and presents, there's just one more thing for your child to do: thank you notes!

While you are waiting for the real stuff, this activity lets your child play in pretend "snow" while practicing reading skills and learning about magnets.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

The objective of this science fair project is to explore the relationship between acidic and basic compounds.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.