Gourd painting is a fun fall activity that makes for perfect Thanksgiving decorations. Try gourd painting with your child for some seasonal fun this autumn.

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

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

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.

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

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

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

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.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

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!

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.