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

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!

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

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

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

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

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

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

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.

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

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

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.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

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

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

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

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

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

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!

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

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

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.

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

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

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

Mad Libs are fun but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story himself!

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

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!

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