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! 

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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