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

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

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

Help your child learn more about the military by having him create a portrait of a soldier and write a short summary about why that soldier is important.

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

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

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

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

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

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

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

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

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

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.

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.

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

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

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.

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.