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

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

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

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

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

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

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

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

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

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

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

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!

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

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.

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

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 fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

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

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.