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Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

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.

Multiplication facts are a necessary skill, and this board game provides a fun way for your third grader to practice them!

Create your very own "stained glass" flower, the perfect gift for mom this Mother's Day!

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

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

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

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

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

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

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

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.