If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

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

Invite your middle schooler to bungee jump ... with eggs! This experiment will demonstrate Newton's laws of physics in an entertaining way.

This project examines who can jump higher, boys or girls, younger people or older, and how these two factors, gender and age, interact with one another.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Here are two fun, rhythmic jump rope chants to help your first grader learn the days of the week, practice reading skills, and stay fit!

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

This very physical game gets math off the page and into the real world-- and it works on number sense and estimation, key skills for kindergarten readiness.

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

This time-based word builder is the perfect way to boost your child's vocabulary. Mix and match letters to see how many words she can come up with!

Create a homemade pair of sunglasses with colored lenses to see just how light and color affect our sight! Use this fun project to practice science!

In this arts and crafts activity, boost your kindergartener's letter recognition and reading skills by helping her create a paper word quilt.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

Your child can make a homemade find-a-word game personalized for the Christmas holidays and family.

Jump into the story of Cinderella by making a pumpkin coach of your own!

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Help your kindergartener make and play a "Hop On Pop"-inspired card game--a fun way to learn word families!

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

Picking words out can be tricky. In this early reading activity, your child will place letter markers on a grid to make words appear out of the jumble.