Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

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.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

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

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.

Decorate eggs for Easter without the mess by making an Easter egg collage instead in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Show your teen how to create silly limericks--cheery comic verses that probably originated in Limerick, Ireland--of her own.

Introduce your preschooler to patterns in this arts and craft activity that uses household materials to create and paint scratch prints.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Wax paper hearts are a unique and glittery gift for a special friend on Valentine's Day. Make wax paper hearts with your child this February.

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

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

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.