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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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! 

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

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

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

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

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

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

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 child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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