Children incorporate materials from outdoors with paints or crayons to create pieces of art to display on their clotheslines, fences, or porches for a neighborhood art show.
Using a variety of artifacts, mementos, and technologies, teens can create an electronic scrapbook of their most important moments in high school.
Work with teens to learn about family members' significant personal experiences by interviewing them and sharing their stories with the rest of the family.
This activity can help teens create picture books that a teen caregiver can then share with children.
In this project, teens create autobiographies, adding music selections to their life stories.
This activity will help pairs or groups of teens explore a hands-on approach that lets them become both comic book writers and comic book artists.
Teens can take part in the process of building family histories by recording the stories, or memoirs, of family members.
Work with a teen to create a wiki with everything people should know about the teen's top ten favorite songs—and your favorite songs as well! Then invite friends to add their favorite songs too.
This activity gives teens an opportunity to write reviews on the movies, television shows, music, restaurants, and books they love—and hate!
In this activity, you can discuss with teens how they can tell the "good" characters from the "bad" ones by watching for clues that the movie makers have left.
This activity will help teens create a professional resume that effectively presents their skills and talents to future employers.
This activity guides teens in reaching out to authors of books they love by composing personal letters or connecting to authors through their websites or blogs.
Using published comics and cartoons as examples, children can create their own while playing with images and language.
Sort through your junk mail and talk about what you find for a fun literacy activity before recycling it!
Children can interview family members and make an illustrated timeline of the most important family events and memories.
Plan a visit to a library to discover more about this magical place.
Playing board games or card games can be a fun activity, so why not make your own?
Children will draw on their knowledge of story structure and fairy tales to write their own.
After viewing some footage from the actual event, students jot down thoughts and feelings of the Little Rock Nine. Students then write a bio-poem that might have been written by one of these students on this historic day.