Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

Have the kids use sidewalk chalk to draw portraits of their family and, in the process, learn about familial relationships.

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Children will love this arts and crafts activity. Write an "invisible" message in white crayon, then paint over it to reveal the secret!

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Do lefties just write different or are their brains different? This science project has students explore what it means to be left handed.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

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

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

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

Spark your child's interest in current events by encouraging them to write a letter to the U.S. president.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Use Martin Luther King, Jr's historical "I Have a Dream Speech" to inspire your child to write down her own dreams.

Develop your kindergartener's fine motor skills while tracing shadows on a sunny day with this fun kindergarten activity.

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Take a fun and simple look at the concept of parallel lines with your child. This art activity is great for fine motor skills and perfect for Valentine's Day!

This life-sized self-portrait activity encourages children to explore what makes them special, and then portray it with arts and crafts!

Liven up a lesson about graphing by helping your third grader compile a bar graph from his classmates' birthday data.

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

In this activity, children will write letters to their future selves and draw encouraging pictures. These letters will be given to back to them at a future time when they are in need of some encouragement and kind reminders.

In this activity, you and your child will practice taking a movement or calming break during homework or when feeling tired. Then, your child will write about and draw what the experience was like for them.