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.

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

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

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