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You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

Play this fun basketball game to help your third grader master their multiplication tables.

Learning to count can be pretty tough. Have your child play this game with you or a friend and watch her quickly become a master counter.

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Making metric conversions is a difficult concept to master. Get in some extra practice by playing this Tic-Tac-Toe game with your learner.

Playing a tactile game with multiplication will help your child get a better grasp of basic math concepts and transform your kid into a master multiplier.

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

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.

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

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.

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

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

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

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.

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

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

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

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.