Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Encourage your fourth grader to develop their critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

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

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.