This season, your child will make his very own candy cane decoration. He can make a bunch and put them all around your home!

Combine a recycling craft with ABC practice with this homemade foam craft idea.

Help your kindergartener practice letter strokes while experimenting with the painting style of the great artist Mondrian.

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!

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

This science fair project idea raises awareness of a real ecological issue.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Help your third grader practice his writing skills and learn to operate household appliances like the washing machine or DVR with this Family How-to guide!

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

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.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

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!

Here's an adorable kindergarten refrigerator magnet that celebrates the glories of the letter "B" and benefits your early reader.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Meant to be fun and inspiring, Oulipo N+7 challenges writers to create new writing, use language and enriches vocabulary, spelling and critical thinking.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

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

Show your teen how to create silly limericks--cheery comic verses that probably originated in Limerick, Ireland--of her own.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

The purpose of this science project is to investigate which will grow larger plants: compost, soil and Miracle - Gro, a mixture of both.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Discover which absorbent material is the best; the Shamwow, paper towels, or cotton towels.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.