This activity is a craft project and a math workshop all in one! Use found objects to encourage your child to imitate, extend, and create patterns.

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

Kids write about their favorite parts of school in 100 words to celebrate 100 days of school in this 5th grade writing activity.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

Boost creativity with this simple activity where kids make up biographies of people they find in old magazines.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

This project explores whether nails, toothpicks, straws, or pen nibs are best for applying ink to paper.

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

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

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

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.

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.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

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

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

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

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

Here's a creative way to build second grade writing skills this Easter.

Dream big with a homemade dream journal, a great writing exercise for elementary-age kids.

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!

Next time your second grader needs to send a card, consider this goofy writing and craft project.