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Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!

Rewriting this classic Christmas carol will spark your child's creativity while strengthening his familiarity with grammar and style elements.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

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

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

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

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Determine if each hemisphere specializes in dealing with specific functions. Include illustrations of the brain, it hemispheres.

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

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!

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

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

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.