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This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

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!

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.

Play this homophone game with your child the next time you sit down with them to read a story and help them build some valuable reading skills.

Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Transform a simple menu into a work of art! Let your child unleash her inner artist on tonight's menu for a beautiful display that the whole family can enjoy.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

This fun activity encourages your child to develop their skills in not only taking measurements, but also in working with the measurements themselves.

Test out the pH levels of soil in your backyard versus soil in more wild environments to solve this science case.

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

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

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.

This science fair project idea produces varying pitches of sound.

Check out this cool science fair project on identifying rocks and minerals for kids.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

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

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Here are three easy, budget-friendly ways to preserve your child's work and precious memories without filling up the attic.

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.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.

Use Martin Luther King, Jr's historical "I Have a Dream Speech" to inspire your child to write down her own dreams.