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

In this colorful craft, make an enchanting star card for a birthday, holiday, or just for fun with construction paper and foam sheets!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

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

Measuring and mixing is half the fun with these Irish oatmeal cookies, and it's a great way to introduce your second grader to cooking and kitchen tools.

Your kid will have the coolest lunch around when he creates this owl's head lunch bag topper. Celebrate the arrival of fall with this rustic-inspired craft.

With a few creases and crimps, you can turn regular old aluminum foil into tin foil art!

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

Introduce your second grader to a fun Mexican custom by showing her how to make papel picado, a beautiful creation of cut-out tissue paper.

No big beach party or a sudsy seafood feast should be without this bright, colorful tablecloth!

This Sephardic meat pie features ground beef, mashed potato, onions, and spices simmered in a hearty gravy and then baked in matzoh crust.

Bubble wrap is fun to pop, but it's also fun to paint with! Paint a pretty seascape using bubble wrap as your brush.

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

These hanging carrots will help the Easter bunny find your house and celebrate a brightly colored food that is a healthy treat for bunnies and kids alike.

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

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

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

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

Explore form, space, and texture with your child this Valentine's Day by making a charming papier-mâché heart sculpture!

Make a paper jack-o'-lantern treat bucket this Halloween! While crafting, your kid will learn about the process of creating self-standing sculptural objects.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Transform your kitchen table into a winter wonderland with a cookie and cocoa party that looks freshly dusted with snow.

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Play loteria, a Mexican board game! Help your child make this fun and festive game to help her build her vocabulary and have a blast while she's at it.

Invite your child to craft dream cloud magnets to display their hopes and visions for the future!

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.