Writing Activities : Page 2

Create your very own "stained glass" flower, the perfect gift for mom this Mother's Day!

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Determine if each hemisphere specializes in dealing with specific functions. Include illustrations of the brain, it hemispheres.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Science fair project which evaluates different athletic shoes in order to find out whether any of them affect a person's ability to run.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Put your kid to the test and have him compare and contrast elements in a narrative text by identifying how characters and situations are alike and different.

Discover which absorbent material is the best; the Shamwow, paper towels, or cotton towels.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."