A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Want to make number skills second nature to your preschooler? Try these cheerful, "sunny" number flash cards!

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

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.

Your child can count down the days until Christmas while giving Santa's beard a trim. This adorable project bolsters counting and number recognition skills.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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

Help your preschooler celebrate his big day by crafting a special, sparkly diploma frame to celebrate his achievement!

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

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.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

This science fair project idea provide quantitative data about how well the use of ASL ( American Sign Language) works in communicating with babies.

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

Introduce your child to the symbols of fall with this easy-to-make matching game that will hone observational skills and increase your kid's attention span.

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

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

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

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!