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

Create a treasure hunt out of word-puzzle clues hidden around the home or yard.

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.

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.

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."

Invite young adults to write letters to classmates, postcards from travels, and e-mails to family and friends.

Before seeing a film based on a book, classic or contemporary, children can learn about filmmaking and create their own scenes based on their favorite moments from the book.

Invite children and teens to create a travel brochure to share information about a special place with others.