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By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

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

Want to make number skills second nature to your preschooler? Try these cheerful, "sunny" number flash cards!

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

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

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

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

Here's an easy project: create a homework helper bookmark so your fourth grader can write down assignments and mark the pages he needs to read.

Introduce your child to the symbols of fall with this easy-to-make matching game that will hone observational skills and increase your kid's attention span.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

This science fair project idea provide quantitative data about how well the use of ASL ( American Sign Language) works in communicating with babies.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

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

Make a textured name plate to hang on your preschooler's door!

The objective of this science fair project is to determine whether drawing with the right side or the left side of your brain will produce a better picture.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!