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This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

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.

Looking for an on-the-go game that can be played anywhere, anytime? Put down the hangman and tic-tac-toe. Here's a new one for the whole family!

Learn how to make a haunted house with this Halloween craft. See how to make a haunted house with a project that is fun for ghosts and ghouls alike.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Travel to ancient Mesopotamia with your kids by carving your own unique cuneiform cylinder seals.

Make fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

Take the classic game to a new level, by including super fun directions inside the chalk-drawn boxes.

Learn about the ancient art of Japanese calligraphy with this New Year's activity about kakizome.

Enlist your fifth grader's help in making homemade mistletoe. Every time someone passes under it, he will express appreciation to another family member!

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!

This science fair project demonstrates the principles of reflection through simple experiments involving mirrors and light.

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.