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! 

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

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

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Encourage your preschooler's creativity with this exciting art project! Every "scratch art" drawing is unique and colorful!

Decorate eggs for Easter without the mess by making an Easter egg collage instead in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

Your preschooler will have a great time painting on a foil background to create a stunning, shiny work of art!

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

Help your kindergartener practice letter strokes while experimenting with the painting style of the great artist Mondrian.

Help your preschooler celebrate his big day by crafting a special, sparkly diploma frame to celebrate his achievement!

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.