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.

Help your child learn more about the military by having him create a portrait of a soldier and write a short summary about why that soldier is important.

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

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

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

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

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

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Mad Libs are fun, but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story!

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

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

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

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

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

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

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

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

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

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

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

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

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!