These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

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

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

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 keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

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!

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.