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.

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

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

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.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

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.

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

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.

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

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.

Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

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.