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

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

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.

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

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 you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

I see fun in your future! Your child will love making homemade Popsicles and creating jokes or fortunes to write on the Popsicle sticks.

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.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

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

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.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

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

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

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.

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

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

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

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

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.

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.

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!