This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

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

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

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.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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.

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

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

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

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

Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

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

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.

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

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