Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

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

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

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

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

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.

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

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

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

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

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

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

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

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.