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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 a Story in a Jar!

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

Gingerbread Man Story

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

Rock Painting: Retell a Story

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

Create a Story Summary Folder

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

Shoebox Story

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

Spark a Story

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

Complete the Christmas Story

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

Write a Story From an Ant's Perspective

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.

Zoo Yoga

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

Fairy Tale Rebus

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

Make Your Own Fairy Tale

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Imagine Life on a Cloud

In this activity, your child will hear a story and practice mindful breathing. They will paint a picture that reminds them to bring mindfulness and kindness to their puppy mind.

Puppy Mind

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Fall Family Theater Night

Hearing true stories of compassionate people can be uplifting and inspiring! In this home activity, your child will hear a true story of compassion and then set goals to bring compassion to their home and/or community.

Compassion: Seeing Clearly

Nature is so generous to us all. How often do we reflect and thank nature? In this activity, children will engage with the classic story, The Giving Tree, and actively practice gratitude in nature for trees and all that trees do for us!

Giving and Receiving Kindness

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Plan Stories with The Five-Finger Technique

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

Can You Picture It?: A Writing Activity

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Can You Keep a Secret?

In this activity, your child will write stories about two different people. The stories will include similarities and differences in the ways each person lives in their communities.

Similarities

Children get creative with this fun, imaginative activity that combines an upcycled everyday household item with a few craft supplies.

Tissue Box Creatures

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Dinosaur Family Dynamics

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Rewrite the Fairy Tale Ending

In this activity, your child will explore what it means and how it feels to live in a community.

Community Mobile

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

Misty Copeland Portraits

Help your child get more comfortable with rhyme schemes with The Bear in Despair by Amanda Bray Cody.

Teaching Rhyming with The Bear in Despair

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Write Your Own Tall Tale

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Punctuate with Pasta!

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

Become a Word Detective!

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Understanding Headers and Subheaders

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