Here's a review of simile, metaphor, and personification, and a fun, creative writing activity to make things like metaphor a piece of cake!

Next time your second grader needs to send a card, consider this goofy writing and craft project.

Make a photo essay! This fun middle school photography activity makes creative writing come to life by turning words into pictures.

Here's a creative way to build second grade writing skills this Easter.

Thank-you card writing is fun with this creative cut-out card project for tweens and teens.

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

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Kids write about their favorite parts of school in 100 words to celebrate 100 days of school in this 5th grade writing activity.

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

As your middle schooler writes a version of "The Gift of the Magi," he will practice creative writing as he reflects on image, sacrifice, love, and family.

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

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Observe trends in the properties of writing materials over past 5000 years and extrapolate to future time. Prepare a table that compares writing material.

Boost creativity with this simple activity where kids make up biographies of people they find in old magazines.

Does your child have trouble holding a pencil? Is writing an excruciating task? The key is to build up those hand muscles! This water relay race can help.

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

See what's on your child's mind in this colorful, creative exercise.

Introduce colors to shadow play with this creative and irresistible science activity!

Make a creative Father's Day art card to celebrate your family's beloved guy!

Combine your creative fifth grader's love of nature, art and poetry with leaf printing!

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.