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.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

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.

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

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

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

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

Mad Libs are fun, but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story!

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

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.

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

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

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.

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

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

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.

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

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

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

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

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!

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

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

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

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.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

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

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.