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

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

These finger puppets are easy to make, and they're a great way to encourage story-telling and imaginative play.

Help your teen truly control his own destiny by having him write a 'Choose Your Own Adventure'-style story!

During this chilly winter season, try this fun indoor craft with your preschooler to help him explore art concepts like shape, form and texture.

Let your kid have fun painting by blowing the paint around on the paper rather than using a paintbrush. The result will be a fabulously abstract piece of art!

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.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

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

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

Celebrate the new year by making a memory book with your child! You'll reinforce time and calendar concepts and you'll get to reminisce about the past year.

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.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Turn ordinary cookies into puppets and create edible performance art!

Bend, twist, squish and press a paper bag into a tree! Once it's finished, your child's Halloween tree will look like it came right out of a scary fairy tale.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

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

The everyday American scenes painted by Edward Hopper provide a great opportunity for your middle schooler to narrate and engage in storytelling.

Hop over to the craft table and make this easy bunny puppet!

Design a survival kit. Brainstorm various survival scenarios. Address basic human requirements and natural resources. Describe each tool as well uses.

This watercolor landscape creates the background for the adventures of Little Red Riding Hood by using spooky silhouettes for the characters.

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

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

Show your teens the connection between making history and writing it by having them write, illustrate, and edit a newspaper from the past.

Help your budding artist construct this paper chain caterpillar craft, inspired by the intelligent bug from "Alice in Wonderland."

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Your third grader will love both recreating and dressing up as his favorite reptile with this frightening crocodile jaw costume!

Rewriting this classic Christmas carol will spark your child's creativity while strengthening his familiarity with grammar and style elements.