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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!

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

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

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.

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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?

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

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

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

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 project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.