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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

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

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

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

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

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

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

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

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

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

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

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.

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

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