Show your teen how to create silly limericks--cheery comic verses that probably originated in Limerick, Ireland--of her own.

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

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.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.

Hereâs a surefire way to get your kids practicing their ABCs. Create an edible alphabet out of marshmallows and toothpicks.

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

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

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

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

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

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 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.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

While kids learn when they can see or hear, they learn better when they can touch, too! Get your preschooler's fingers walking the alphabet today!

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

Kids love to hear about themselves. And reading about themselves is even better! This personal yearbook will let them record all their important facts.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.