The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

Mad Libs are fun but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story himself!

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!

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

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

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.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Determine if each hemisphere specializes in dealing with specific functions. Include illustrations of the brain, it hemispheres.

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

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.

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.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

Free science fair project idea that examines cheating in school-age children. Project involves a task in which children are tested on various tasks.

Which battery lasts the longest? In this science fair project, kids will test popular brand name batteries like Duracell and Energizer against generic brands.

Put your kid to the test and have him compare and contrast elements in a narrative text by identifying how characters and situations are alike and different.

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

This project examines whether more expensive golf balls translate into better results on the golf course.

Science fair project which evaluates different athletic shoes in order to find out whether any of them affect a person's ability to run.

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Study the anatomy of the brain and the functions of the corpus callosum. Research split brain surgery and its impact on advances in neuroscience.

This experiment explores how listening in to a one-sided conversation affects concentration.