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.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

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

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

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

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

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

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.

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

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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!

Encourage your fourth grader to develop their critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

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

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

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

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

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.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

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.