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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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Your fourth grader can have fun and get creative this winter by creating a colorful winter weather collage.

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

This science fair project idea investigates whether plants can survive being frozen.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Edible holiday gifts are perfect for the foodie in your life. Learn how to make edible holiday gifts with this activity and tutorial.

Here's a pumpkin nut bread recipe that makes for a wonderful project on a crisp autumn afternoon.

Analyze this simple betting game with your fourth grade student in order to discuss probability.

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

Here's a sweet holiday recipe to make with your fifth grader: bake scrumptious sugar-dusted chocolate snowballs! Serve them at your next Christmas party.

This science fair project idea explores substances that cause a bubble to last longer.

Take the pain out of parts by disguising your third grader's fraction lessons as baking with these pumpkin breakfast muffins complete with ghostly marshmallows!

Develop your child's hand-eye coordination in a fun and engaging way by challenging her to a game of Drop Catch.

Encourage your child to eat nutritiously by having them build this delicious summer fruit cone!

In this project students experiment with making music using only glasses of water.

Homemade dog treats are fun to make and delicious for your household pet. Make homemade dog treats to create personal Christmas gifts for dogs.

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

Introduce your child to baking with traditional Hamantaschen, or jam-filled buttery cookies that are usually made for Purim.

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.