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! 

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

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.

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

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

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

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

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

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

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

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

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

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

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

The purpose of this science fair project is to determine whether Green Bags, with or without refrigeration, are most effective in preserving food.