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

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

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.

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

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

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

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.

Help your preschooler craft her very own announcement to celebrate the special transition to "big kids" school!

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

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

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

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

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.