Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

Multiplication facts are a necessary skill, and this board game provides a fun way for your third grader to practice them!

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

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.

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

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

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

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

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

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

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

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

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

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.

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

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

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

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

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.