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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

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

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

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

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

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.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

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! 

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

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