This activity is a craft project and a math workshop all in one! Use found objects to encourage your child to imitate, extend, and create patterns.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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 project explores whether nails, toothpicks, straws, or pen nibs are best for applying ink to paper.

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

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

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

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

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

Looking for a way to engage your child with an interest in family history, or boost his writing? This is a great writing and storytelling activity.

Get your reluctant teen excited about writing: by alternating "found" phrases from a favorite book with his own writing, he'll create a unique, profound poem.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.