Calling all power-shoppers! This game is a fun way for kids to learn life skills, and flex their math muscles at the same time.

Make a homemade doll out of recycled materials, similar to dolls made by pioneer children.

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

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

This spider mobile activity encourages learning about the science of motion, air currents and art.

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by counting and spelling your way to a "$1.00" word in this 3rd grade math and reading game.

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

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

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.

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.

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

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.

In this experiment, kids will see if pruning tomato plants makes them more fruitful and learn about the factors that contribute to a plant's fruit production.

With this activity, you'll create a family treasure...and reinforce social studies basics while you're at it!

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

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.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

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