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!

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

Gourd painting is a fun fall activity that makes for perfect Thanksgiving decorations. Try gourd painting with your child for some seasonal fun this autumn.

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

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

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

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

Here's an adorable kindergarten refrigerator magnet that celebrates the glories of the letter "B" and benefits your early reader.

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.