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

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.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

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.

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.

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.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

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

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

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

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

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

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

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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

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

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 preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

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.

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

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

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

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

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

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.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

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!