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

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

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

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.