In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

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

Create your very own "stained glass" flower, the perfect gift for mom this Mother's Day!

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

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

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

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

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

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

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

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

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

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.

Mad Libs are fun but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story himself!

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

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