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Teach your child about Chinese New Year by creating a dragon float inspired by the brilliant traditional ones seen in Chinese new year parades.

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

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

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

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.

Thanksgiving is a time to be with loved ones. It's also a time to chow down! Need help in the kitchen? There's no better helper than an avid fourth grader.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

This measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

Have your kid create a chart of job titles. It's a great way to get them to recognize the people whose efforts benefit the community.

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

Valentine's Day is a great day to show loved ones how much you appreciate them, and this love bug craft is an adorably simple way to spread the love.

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Help your child honor her grandpa this Father's Day by creating an original photo essay just for him.

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.

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

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

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

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

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

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

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

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.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Create your very own Sleep Book filled with a menagerie of made-up nonsense creatures and discover how different animals catch some zzz's.