This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

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

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

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

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

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

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

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.

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

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

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

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

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

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

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

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.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

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 project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

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!