Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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

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

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

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.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

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!

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" 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.

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.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

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

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

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

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

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

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

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