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Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

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

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

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

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Gourd painting is a fun fall activity that makes for perfect Thanksgiving decorations. Try gourd painting with your child for some seasonal fun this autumn.

Help your preschooler craft her very own announcement to celebrate the special transition to "big kids" school!

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

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.

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

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.

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