If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

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!

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Measure the effectiveness of detergent containing a UV-absorbing compound in blocking UV-A radiation. Use black light and UV detecting beads.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

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

This science fair project idea explores the relationship between oil and water in terms of density as well as hydrophilic/hydrophobic compounds.

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!

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

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

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

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

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

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

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

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

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

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

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.

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.

In this creative arts and crafts activity, children will design and create their very own alphabet tree!

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!

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

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