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Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

How to Write a Scary Story

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

Practice Language Skills with a Dance Map!

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

Write Santa Claus-Themed Alliteration

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

Storyboarding: Using Pictures to Teach Words

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

Code Cracker

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

The Place Value Game

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

Grocery Store Decoding

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

Chanukah Anagram Game

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?

Albedo

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes."  Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Make a Wish Box

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Design a Diorama!

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Papier-Mâché Characters

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Jumble Story!

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

Rudolph the Red Nosed Mad Libs!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Punctuate with Pasta!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Paint and Learn

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

Can You Picture It?: A Writing Activity

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Dictionary Treasure Hunt

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Pencil Toppers

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

Make an Illustrated Vocabulary Book!

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

Write a Simile Poem ... Starring Your Pet!

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Make a Dialogue Journal!

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

Trace Letters on Rice

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by &quot;Green Eggs and Ham&quot; by Dr. Seuss.

Make a Story with Magnetic Words

Helping your child learn to read doesn&#39;t only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Nonsense Book

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research,&nbsp;learn&nbsp;about the animal&rsquo;s habitat, and then replicate the animal&#39;s habitat using household items.

Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

Make a Patterned Story

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Write a Letter to Santa Claus

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. 

Parts of Speech Fall Scavenger Hunt

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

Put on a Poetry Party!

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