Mad Libs are fun, but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story!

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

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!

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

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

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

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!