Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

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

Help your child get more comfortable with rhyme schemes with The Bear in Despair by Amanda Bray Cody.

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!

The next time you are planning a Mexican-inspired menu, let your child contribute with a batch of this guacamole! Here's how.

Spice up your first grader's spelling practice this Presidents Day by playing the Abraham Lincoln Penny Spelling game!

Challenge your budding wordsmith to see how many words he can make out of his own name, using homemade flashcards.

What's the science behind those out-of-sight roots? Find out if you can trick roots into growing in different directions.

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Stock up on the colorful jelly beans available around Easter and put them to work in a piece of jelly bean art!

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

In this activity, you and your child will read a story about heartfulness, practice heartfulness by sending kind wishes to others, and draw pictures of those you both love and care for (such as family members, friends, or pets).

Determination can go along way, especially in difficult times. In this home activity, your child will hear the true story of Ivy, the very determined dog, who plays, loves, and runs, just like the other dogs, even though she does not have the ability to

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.

This children's menorah is a fun craft that lets your child celebrate Hanukkah while learning their ABCs. Make this children's menorah for the Festival of Lights.

This tissue paper painting activity has been developed especially with special needs children in mind, but is an enjoyable craft for just about anyone.

In this activity, your child will explore what it means and how it feels to live in a community.

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

Learn whether Mylar Balloons last longer than Latex Balloons or vice versa.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

Help you child burn his very own CD with all of his favorite color songs to create a compilation album that is truly one of a kind.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Most often, a collage is 2-dimensional, but instead of using paper as a base, this project uses an inexpensive pumpkin from the craft store.

This chocolate gelt is the perfect Hanukkah treat. Chocolate gelt is used as a gift for children or in the classic Hanukkah game of Dreidel.

In this activity, your child will explore the differences between facts and opinions. Together, you will go on a scavenger hunt in your home and play the role of detectives in search of facts.

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.