This activity is a craft project and a math workshop all in one! Use found objects to encourage your child to imitate, extend, and create patterns.

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

Boost creativity with this simple activity where kids make up biographies of people they find in old magazines.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

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

Here's a creative way to build second grade writing skills this Easter.

Next time your second grader needs to send a card, consider this goofy writing and craft project.

Make your own chalkboard to liven up a playroom, and encourage your child to practice writing and math!

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

In this activity, your child will discover their interests and special talents through performing, writing, and drawing.

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Make a phonics paper egg to help your child build up his reading and writing skills.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

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

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Enlist the whole family and helpful friends in this heartwarming activity for Dad. Boost kids' writing skills in the process, too!

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

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

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.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, 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.

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

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

Make this spring break a memorable one by creating a "growth" flower with your child, also great for your second grader's writing practice!

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.