This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Take a closer look at your furry friend (or the furry friend of a neighbor -- with permission) to discover if communication exists between cats and humans.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

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

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Sorting objects by size, color, shape, or function is an important concept in kindergarten math, and it's the perfect excuse for a little housekeeping!

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Make a peace dove to commemorate Black History Month and hang it in your home as a quiet reminder of the spirit of the movement.

Help your preschooler combine a lesson about numbers with a silly, snowy game of hopscotch.

Help your kindergarten scientist understand the concept of surface tension with this simple science experiment.

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

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.

Fly into some rainy day fun with a cardboard airplane project. Making paper airplanes is fun, but you can add a new twist by using recycled materials instead.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Help motivate your child to become a more avid and consistent reader by creating a train-themed reading chart that can serve as a visual reminder of their progress.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

Here are three easy, budget-friendly ways to preserve your child's work and precious memories without filling up the attic.

Spend an afternoon outdoors and add a personal touch to clothes or other items of fabric by learning how to tie-dye.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

In this project, a basketball containing different psi is dropped to see how well it bounces.

Want to capture this year? Make a time capsule of this period in your child's life! You may just be surprised at what you find, when you dig it up next year...

For most kids the fun is in the process, and making a dollhouse out of cardboard boxes is as creative as it gets! Here's how to make your own dollhouse.

Help your kindergartener use a map to find "leprechaun gold"--and build early social studies skills in the process!