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! 

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

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

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

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

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

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.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Help your child honor her grandpa this Father's Day by creating an original photo essay just for him.

Your fourth grader can have fun and get creative this winter by creating a colorful winter weather collage.

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

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

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

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

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

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

Create your very own Sleep Book filled with a menagerie of made-up nonsense creatures and discover how different animals catch some zzz's.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.