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In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

In these three games, children work on letter recognition skills with the help of some tape, music, and a few stuffed animal friends.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

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

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

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

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

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

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

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.

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.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

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

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.

Science fair project that determines whether brain size is correlated with intelligence.

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.

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