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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!

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

This season, your child will make his very own candy cane decoration. He can make a bunch and put them all around your home!

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

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!

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

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

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.