Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

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! 

Help your child learn more about the military by having him create a portrait of a soldier and write a short summary about why that soldier is important.

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

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.

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

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.

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

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

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

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

The objective of this science fair project idea is to explore which brands of "anti-fade" shampoos work the best to keep hair color looking fresh.

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

I see fun in your future! Your child will love making homemade Popsicles and creating jokes or fortunes to write on the Popsicle sticks.

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.

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

This experiment explores how listening in to a one-sided conversation affects concentration.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

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

Help your kid make beautiful coin rubbings to decorate a fun treasure box.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.