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Try these story starters - creativity and sequencing skills combine to create wild stories that will have the whole family in stitches!

Tell the Purim story in a new way: By making a set of puppets out of an old deck of cards!

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

Here's a fun art activity that combines measurement and design with drawing and painting. Kids tell their own special story as they create a story quilt.

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

This adorable activity is a great way to share the Gingerbread Man story with your kid while she practices assemblage.

Use your cookie cutters with jello to have the kids create a story with the shapes they choose.

In this activity, help your kindergartener develop sequencing skills with these easy story sequence cards

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

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

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Help your teen truly control his own destiny by having him write a 'Choose Your Own Adventure'-style story!

This simple way to help your child understand story problems begins as a quick activity and turns into a study tool for years to come!

These simple yet stylish place cards will dazzle your guests and make fun conversation starters at dinner.

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.

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

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Encourage your child to create a tribute to their past, and explore future dreams and goals with this narrative assemblage.

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

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

As your middle schooler writes a version of "The Gift of the Magi," he will practice creative writing as he reflects on image, sacrifice, love, and family.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

The everyday American scenes painted by Edward Hopper provide a great opportunity for your middle schooler to narrate and engage in storytelling.