Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

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

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

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

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

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

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

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

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.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

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

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

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

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

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

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

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

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.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

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

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