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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

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

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

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! 

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.

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.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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

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

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

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

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

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

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

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

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

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

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