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.

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.

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.

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

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.

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

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.

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

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

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

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

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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

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

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

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

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.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

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.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

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

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

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

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