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Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Test products which claim to reduce wrinkles, and determine which is the most effective. Test effectiveness over three weeks, using a sample of volunteers.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Study the anatomy of the brain and the functions of the corpus callosum. Research split brain surgery and its impact on advances in neuroscience.

Determine if each hemisphere specializes in dealing with specific functions. Include illustrations of the brain, it hemispheres.

Science fair project that determines whether brain size is correlated with intelligence.

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

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

The purpose of this science project is to investigate which will grow larger plants: compost, soil and Miracle - Gro, a mixture of both.

Gourd painting is a fun fall activity that makes for perfect Thanksgiving decorations. Try gourd painting with your child for some seasonal fun this autumn.

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

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

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.

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

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 fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

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.