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

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Help your child learn more about the military by having him create a portrait of a soldier and write a short summary about why that soldier is important.

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

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

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

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

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

Mad Libs are fun, but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story!

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

Show your teens the connection between making history and writing it by having them write, illustrate, and edit a newspaper from the past.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

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

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

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

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!

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

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