Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

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!

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

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.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

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

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

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.