As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

The goal of this science fair project is to evaluate the effect of heat on sound wave frequency.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension 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.

How do you spell fun and learning? B-I-N-G-O! Children learn through play. And letter or number bingo is a great place to start.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

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

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

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.

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

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping them recognize letters in a creative way.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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.

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

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

Look for correlation between pH values of commercial soaps and detergents and manufacturer claims about eye irritation hazards.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

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

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!