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

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

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.

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

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

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

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

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

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

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

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

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.

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

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

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

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.

Help your third grader practice his writing skills and learn to operate household appliances like the washing machine or DVR with this Family How-to guide!

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

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

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

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

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

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

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.