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.

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

What's the science behind those out-of-sight roots? Find out if you can trick roots into growing in different directions.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

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

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.

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.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.

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

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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

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

Here's a fun book-making project that will help your child learn to abbreviate and provide an opportunity for her to exercise her artistic abilities.

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

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

Children will reflect on the importance of diversity and brainstorm ways to support people in their community who may feel alone, researching local organizations that strive to help those people.

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

Create a sun-shaped summer words chart in this DIY craft activity!

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.