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By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

In this activity, your child will learn the benefits of positive thinking. They will write positive statements about themselves and create a gratitude board.

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

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

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

There's more to corn than the sweet yellow kernels. This easy craft project shows you and your kid how to make pretty corn husk flowers using just a few tools.

These DIY star garlands will add the perfect patriotic touch to your home this 4th of July!

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

This simple Veterans Day craft is a great way to have your kid work on her drawing skills and put her vocabulary to the test too!

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

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

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.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

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

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.

Play this homophone game with your child the next time you sit down with them to read a story and help them build some valuable reading skills.

By using your child's own activity schedule, you can strengthen his understanding of elapsed time, and get him organized along the way!

Learn how to make fairy wings with these easy instructions. See how to make fairy wings for Halloween or dress-up time.

What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.