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1. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   Acting Out with Mother Goose
   Act out a story after reading it. Work together to create a script and make costumes and props. Then invite others to watch and hear your story!
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   Add Seasons to Rhyming Poems and Songs
   Choose favorite rhyming songs or nursery rhymes then replace the rhyming words with seasonal themes.
3. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   All About Me! Use Photos to Write Stories
   Help children use favorite photos to write a homemade memory book.
4. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Amazing Biographies: Writing About People Who Change the World
   After reading about historical figures and other important people that have changed the world, children choose someone that they consider to be “amazing”—either someone they’ve heard about or someone they know—and create a book page that highlights this person.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   A Story for Corduroy
   After reading a Corduroy book together, encourage creativity and develop writing skills by writing a story about a favorite stuffed animal.
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   A Trip to the Museum: From Picture to Story
   Visit a museum or art gallery (either online or in person) with children and teens, helping them find inspiration for a story based on a piece of art that they particularly enjoy or relate to.
   
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   1 – 4  |  Activity & Project
   Become a Young Archaeologist
   Want to visit a museum without leaving your computer? Virtually dig for famous historical artifacts from around the world found in the British Museum.
8. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Activity & Project
   Beguiling Billboards: Finding Inspiration along the Road
   For this activity, teens study “Pass It On” billboards created by The Foundation for a Better Life either online or on-the-go, and create an original billboard and inspirational phrase for a person of their choosing.
9. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Activity & Project
   Bio-Graph: Graphing Life Events
   Work with teens to learn about family members’ significant personal experiences by interviewing them and sharing their stories with the rest of the family.
10. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
    Blast Off to Learn New Words
    Boost vocabulary by taking an imaginary trip into space. After a lunar “landing,” children return to Earth with a galaxy of new words.

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