Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

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.

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

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

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

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

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

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

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

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.

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

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

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

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.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

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! 

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.

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.

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.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

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