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This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

In this activity, your kid will cut rectangles, circles and triangles to create a portrait of the jolliest man of them all: Santa Claus!

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

Your little one can welcome the reindeer with an adorable reindeer portrait all while learning the difference between small, medium and large.

Your child can count down the days until Christmas while giving Santa's beard a trim. This adorable project bolsters counting and number recognition skills.

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

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

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

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.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

Introduce your child to the symbols of fall with this easy-to-make matching game that will hone observational skills and increase your kid's attention span.

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.

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.