Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

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

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

In celebration of National Peace Day on September 21st, your child can create a colorful peace collage, using magazine clippings and colorful pieces of paper.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Halloween bingo is a fun Halloween word and symbol activity for ghosts and ghouls of all ages. Play Halloween bingo this October to get into the spooky spirit.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

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

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

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.

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

DIY gift tags make any holiday gift more special. Make these DIY gift tags with your child.

This science fair project idea explores whether talking to a plant will help it grow.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

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.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

If you love the look of yarn but aren't in the mood for complicated knitting or crocheting, have your child create simple and beautiful yarn letters.

Give your child a glimpse of how another set of students approach reading by teaching him how the blind use braille.

Save the tiny tiles from the iconic board game and reuse them as a statement of scholarly style by making them into a crafty piece of jewelry.

Clouds are formed when warm and cold air meet. Here's a way for kids to see it all up close!

On Martin Luther King Day, help your third grader create an original "scratch art" card to thank a person who has made a difference in his life.

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Jump into Japanese culture with your child by making your own calligraphy scroll. Try your hand at painting kanji on paper just like Zen masters of old!