Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

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

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

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

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

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

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.

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

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.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

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

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

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

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

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

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

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

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