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With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

In this activity, your child will practice taking on the perspective of others and will generate ideas for conflict resolution at home.

Children will deepen their understanding of global citizenship and create a collage that illustrates all of the ways many communities are connected.

Mad Libs are fun but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story himself!

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

Geometric shapes can often be tough to remember. But, with a little bit of art, imagination, and writing, practicing geometry has never been so much fun!

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

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.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Your fourth grader can have fun and get creative this winter by creating a colorful winter weather collage.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Leadership is a word that can hold many meanings. In this activity, your child will define the word "leadership," learn more about a leader they admire, and reflect on their leadership. Finally, your child will reflect on how they too are a leader!

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Children will create a "This is Me!" collage that will highlight their many gifts, talents, interests, and leadership skills.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

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

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

This November, it's elephant versus donkey! Does your third grader understand the meaning behind the animals political parties choose to represent them?

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

Make use of your family's leftover Christmas cards and wrapping paper with a colorful letter craft activity!

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Solfege signs are used to guide students through music that is new to them. Help your musically-inclined child learn to work with this fun system today.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

Nature is so generous to us all. How often do we reflect and thank nature? In this activity, children will engage with the classic story, The Giving Tree, and actively practice gratitude in nature for trees and all that trees do for us!

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

Encourage your third-grader to create a reverse glass painting. This will help him learn art concepts and improve his critical thinking skills.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.