In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

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

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

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

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

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

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.

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

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

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

Mad Libs are fun, but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story!

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

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.

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

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.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

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

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

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.

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

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

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.