Spark your child's interest in current events by encouraging them to write a letter to the U.S. president.

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

Is your fifth grader trying overnight camp this summer? If so, prepare your child for writing a letter home with this activity!

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Do lefties just write different or are their brains different? This science project has students explore what it means to be left handed.

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

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

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.

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

Science fair project in which you will learn more about the natural world by preserving and identifying different animal tracks.

Use Martin Luther King, Jr's historical "I Have a Dream Speech" to inspire your child to write down her own dreams.

Help your kid keep track of all the developments that led to the American Revolution, by portraying the steps visually and literally!

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

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

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

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

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

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

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

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

Introduce your fifth grader to the irresistible fun of string art with this letter project!