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Try these story starters - creativity and sequencing skills combine to create wild stories that will have the whole family in stitches!

Tell the Purim story in a new way: By making a set of puppets out of an old deck of cards!

Here's a fun art activity that combines measurement and design with drawing and painting. Kids tell their own special story as they create a story quilt.

This adorable activity is a great way to share the Gingerbread Man story with your kid while she practices assemblage.

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

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.

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

Encourage your child to create a tribute to their past, and explore future dreams and goals with this narrative assemblage.

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

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

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

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will hear the story Zoo Zen: A Yoga Story for Kids, learn the benefits of yoga, and create their own yoga sequence to teach someone else.

Jump into the story of Cinderella by making a pumpkin coach of your own!

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

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

Finger puppets encourage creative play, communication, and they give you a great way to share the Passover story with your kids.

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

Try this delicious and nutritious recipe for Green Eggs and Ham, inspired by Dr. Seuss's classic story of Sam I Am.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.