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Make your own wrapping paper with some materials from around the house. Try to make your own wrapping paper this year for a unique presentation for your gifts.

This zombie shirt is a fun and incredibly simple Halloween costume. Have your kid don the shirt lurch around the neighborhood searching for brains...or candy!

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

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Using simple materials found around your home, you can reinforce the static electricity concept by helping your child build a simple device with zapping power!

This construction paper activity helps your child to assemble a variety of emotions on a face so she can recognize how she and everyone around her is feeling.

Are you looking for a fun craft for the next big American holiday? Make this hat with your kid and let him march around the room like a Revolutionary soldier!

Is your third grader bombing around on a bike these days? Here's a way to put all that fun time together with some math learning, too.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

Big bags hold a lot of candy, but they're hard to tote around. Have your kid construct a candy corn candy holder perfect for carrying a few lightweight treats.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will write loving kindness notes to place around the home to serve as a reminder (for themselves and others) to see the goodness within themselves.

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!

Silent "e" words are a big part of first grade phonics. Help them turn words like "hop" to "hope" in this action-packed, practical game.

Invite your child and a few friends to get crabby in this game of soccer with a twist: Instead of running, players "crab crawl" around the playing field.

Your kid will have the coolest lunch around when he creates this owl's head lunch bag topper. Celebrate the arrival of fall with this rustic-inspired craft.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Your child will reflect on the term "beauty" and the things they are grateful for. They will read the book All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon and reflect on how focusing on the small and big things of beauty around them can benefit themselves and others.

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

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

In this high energy, interactive game, third graders are challenged to race, involving spelling patterns in words.

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.