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Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

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

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.

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.

Conduct a mock interview with the President to teach your child about politics, the president and the world she lives in.

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

Give your child a chance to feel like important airport personnel and learn a whole host of skills while he's at it!

Throw a P.E. party in your own backyard that will make fitness fun!

Make unique and pretty bracelets using that all-purpose mainstay of crafts and home repair: duct tape!

Crisps are the hidden gem of the homemade dessert world.

mix and match your own creative outfits while also predicting clothing combinations -- style and statistics practice all in one!

Instead of drilling facts, grab sidewalk chalk and head outside for a rousing game of this Math Run game. Play the Math Run game with your child.

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

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

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

This fun calculator exercise will take the mystery away from the machine, and familiarize your child with the functions of a calculator.

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.

Batik is a traditional Indonesian craft, which uses a technique of drawing wax on fabric to create patterns before dying.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

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

Help your child learn healthy eating habits by transforming every kid's favorite food into a healthy, flavorful after-school snack.

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

Turn the marks on the wall into art! Create fingerpaint flamingos, herons and ostriches with this fun craft for kids.

How does smell affect taste? Ready your taste buds--in this project, you'll gather some test subjects and do a taste test to see how much smell affects taste.

Can a horse lead itself to the carrot? Train your horse with carrots and boxes and test horse memory in this fun zoology science fair project.

As your child heads back to school this fall, dust off those elementary math skills with our creative calendar activity!

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.

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

Want to help your child learn to fit homework time into a real-life schedule? Here's a tool that can help the whole family.