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

Kids will love Hink Pinks—word puzzles that use two-word clues to lead to a rhyming solution. Try one and get hooked yourself: Obese feline? Fat cat!

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

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.

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

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 teens to explore issues that are important to them, and then write a script and film a video public service announcement.

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.

Explore how music can have an emotional impact on a scene in a movie, then help teens write and film a scene of their own.

Writing stories that imitate a certain genre or type of fiction allows children to explore a book they love by imagining new twists for their favorite characters and plot lines.

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.

Using a variety of artifacts, mementos, and technologies, teens can create an electronic scrapbook of their most important moments in high school.

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!

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 activity teens are encouraged to explore their reading history as they remember books they liked reading as children and then revisit these old favorites.

Engage teens in this activity in which they use photographs to examine and write about courage on a blog.