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Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

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

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

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

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

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

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Rewriting this classic Christmas carol will spark your child's creativity while strengthening his familiarity with grammar and style elements.

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

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.

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

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

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.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

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

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

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.