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!
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After reading a book or magazine, children and teens can choose a section and transform it into what's known as a "found poem."
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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.
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Invite young adults to write letters to classmates, postcards from travels, and e-mails to family and friends.
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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.
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Invite teens to explore issues that are important to them, and then write a script and film a video public service announcement.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In this project, teens create autobiographies, adding music selections to their life stories.
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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.
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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.
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This activity gives teens an opportunity to write reviews on the movies, television shows, music, restaurants, and books they love—and hate!
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Work with teens to learn about family members' significant personal experiences by interviewing them and sharing their stories with the rest of the family.
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This activity can help teens create picture books that a teen caregiver can then share with children.
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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.
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Engage teens in this activity in which they use photographs to examine and write about courage on a blog.
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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.