Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

Science fair project which evaluates different athletic shoes in order to find out whether any of them affect a person's ability to run.

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

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

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

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

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

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.

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

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

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.