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Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

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

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

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

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

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!

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.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

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.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.