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

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.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

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

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

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

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

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

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

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

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

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

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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.

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

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

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

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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

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

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

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

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.