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This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

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

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.

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.

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

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

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

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

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

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.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

The purpose of this science fair project is to determine whether Green Bags, with or without refrigeration, are most effective in preserving food.

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!

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

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

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.

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

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

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

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

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