Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Discover which absorbent material is the best; the Shamwow, paper towels, or cotton towels.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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!

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

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

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

Play the fridge magnet name game with your preschooler to help prepare her for kindergarten reading and writing.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

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

The objective of this science fair project is to explore the relationship between acidic and basic compounds.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

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

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.