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.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

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

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

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.

I see fun in your future! Your child will love making homemade Popsicles and creating jokes or fortunes to write on the Popsicle sticks.

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

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

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

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

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.

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

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

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

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.

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

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.

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.

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

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

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

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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

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

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

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

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

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

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