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

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

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

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

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 household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

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

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.

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

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!

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

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

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal 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.

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.