Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

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.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

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

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

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The objective of this science fair project is to determine whether drawing with the right side or the left side of your brain will produce a better picture.