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This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Discover the Colors of Fall

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

 "Yellow Pages" for a New Neighbor

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Make a Travel Journal

Encourage your fourth grader to develop their critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

Create a Family Movie Guide

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Backyard Field Guide

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

Make Rudolph-Themed Metaphors

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

Write a Seasonal Alphabet Poem

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

Make Your Own Passport

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

Write a Pet Sitter Guide

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

Plan Stories with The Five-Finger Technique

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

Fact Versus Fiction

Help your third grader practice his writing skills and learn to operate household appliances like the washing machine or DVR with this Family How-to guide!

Create a Family How-to Guide

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

Write a Simile Poem ... Starring Your Pet!

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Write a New Ending

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.

Pet ID

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

When I Grow Up I Want To Be...

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

Make a City Guide For Kids!

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Create Your Own Pumpkin Person!

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

Write a Cliffhanger

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

Pantoum Poem

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

Picture Book Pumpkin Creations

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.

Make Shape Poem Greeting Cards

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

A Malala-Inspired Activity: Listicle Blog Posts

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

Letter to Your Teacher

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon

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

Sensory Poem: Halloween

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and  rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Skeltonic Verse

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

Rhymes With Orange

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

Write a Silly Dinosaur Poem

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.

How to Write a Love Song

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