St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

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

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.

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

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.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

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

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

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

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.

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

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

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

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!

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

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

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

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

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

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.