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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

I see fun in your future! Your child will love making homemade Popsicles and creating jokes or fortunes to write on the Popsicle sticks.

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

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

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

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:

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

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