This activity is a craft project and a math workshop all in one! Use found objects to encourage your child to imitate, extend, and create patterns.

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

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

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

Does your child have trouble holding a pencil? Is writing an excruciating task? The key is to build up those hand muscles! This water relay race can help.

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

Boost creativity with this simple activity where kids make up biographies of people they find in old magazines.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

This project explores whether nails, toothpicks, straws, or pen nibs are best for applying ink to paper.

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

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

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

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

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

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

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

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.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

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

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Here's a creative way to build second grade writing skills this Easter.

Here's a delightful activity that uses your child's name to help him improve his writing skills.