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Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

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

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

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

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

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

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

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

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.

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

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

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

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.

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

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

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

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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

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

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

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.