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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

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!

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

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

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

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!

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

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

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

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.