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Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

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.

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Your spotlight-loving third or fourth grader will be delighted to play this improvisational game of freeze theater with family or friends.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

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 learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.