Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

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

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

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

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.

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!

Wax paper hearts are a unique and glittery gift for a special friend on Valentine's Day. Make wax paper hearts with your child this February.

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

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

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

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.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

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!

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

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

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

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

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

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!

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

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

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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:

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.