Writing Activities : Page 4

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Free science fair project idea that examines cheating in school-age children. Project involves a task in which children are tested on various tasks.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

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

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

The purpose of this science fair project is to determine whether Green Bags, with or without refrigeration, are most effective in preserving food.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

The objective of this science fair project is to determine whether drawing with the right side or the left side of your brain will produce a better picture.

Check out this hot project idea to culture bacteria and determine if the claims about the anti-bacterial properties of curry and cinnamon are true.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

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

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Show your teens the connection between making history and writing it by having them write, illustrate, and edit a newspaper from the past.

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.