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In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

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

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

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

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

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

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!