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.

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:

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!

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

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

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

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

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

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

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

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

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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

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!

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.