Encourage children to spend a little time thinking and writing about just what makes a hero and who their personal heroes might be.

This activity invites children and teens to explore various careers and then write about what they might want to be when they grow up in a blog.

While enjoying a book that features a journey, children write postcards from the perspective of the main character for each stop along the trip.

After reading If You Give a Moose a Muffin, have a "Muffin Party"! Children will write invitations, follow a recipe, and enjoy sharing their homemade muffins.

With a piece of paper and a pen, kids can learn anywhere! This activity gets kids writing, looking closely at letters, and learning some new words in any room of the house.

After reading about historical figures and other important people that have changed the world, children choose someone that they consider to be "amazing"—either someone they've heard about or someone they know—and create a book page that highlights this person.

Kids learn about weather sayings throughout history while writing and illustrating a book for younger children.

Brainstorm popular expressions with friends and family, then explore their meanings through game play and writing/drawing/cut-and-paste activities.

Everyone loves getting a greeting card, especially if it's homemade. Make a funny or thoughtful greeting card or invitation with pictures and a poem, joke, or riddle.

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.

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.

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.

Visit a museum or art gallery (either online or in person) with children and teens, helping them find inspiration for a story based on a piece of art that they particularly enjoy or relate to.

After reading a book or magazine, children and teens can choose a section and transform it into what's known as a "found poem."