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

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

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

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

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

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

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

This project examines whether more expensive golf balls translate into better results on the golf course.

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.

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.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Encourage your fourth grader to develop their critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

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.

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

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

Study the anatomy of the brain and the functions of the corpus callosum. Research split brain surgery and its impact on advances in neuroscience.

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

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

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

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!

Look for correlation between pH values of commercial soaps and detergents and manufacturer claims about eye irritation hazards.

Test products which claim to reduce wrinkles, and determine which is the most effective. Test effectiveness over three weeks, using a sample of volunteers.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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