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

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

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."

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

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

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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

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.

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.

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

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

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

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.