Kids may find literature boring on the page, but add a bit of a creative twist to a great story and your kids may just learn to love reading. For example, have your kids work on costumes and props for a family production of "Treasure Island" or other book they are reading for school or that you read together at home. Encourage them to create scenery for settings in books, either in miniature or life-sized.
Showing kids that books can be exciting adventures about faraway lands, either real or imaginary, can spur imagination. It might even prompt them to create their own stories that they put on for your family or at school.
If math is a subject you child doesn't get to excited about, try demonstrating how math can help in everyday situations. You can use everyday items to work on basic math problems with your kids. For example, use coins to teach children how to add or subtract or, for very young children, use cookies or fruit to calculate basic math problems. As a reward for correct answers, a child could get to place the coins in his piggy bank or get a cookie.
Create a mystery-themed game that asks kids to solve a mystery that you've devised. For example, you could create a mystery game in which you hide clues around your house or yard for kids to find. The clues could then be solved leading to the answer of the mystery and a prize for the child who solves the mystery first. For example, you could hide clues inside the answers to a homemade crossword puzzle.
Another learning activity that your kids can do at home is to create history-themed artwork. For example, children can create a collage of imagery associated with the United States, or specifically U.S. Presidents.
Another history-themed art project could be to create a map of the U.S. with children writing in the names of the capital of each state along with a "fun" fact about that state, like a famous writer born there or its main food crop or industry.