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Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

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

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

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

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

Play the fridge magnet name game with your preschooler to help prepare her for kindergarten reading and writing.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

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 bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping them recognize letters in a creative way.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

Decorate eggs for Easter without the mess by making an Easter egg collage instead in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

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!

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.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.