Writing Activities : Page 5

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

This science fair project idea provide quantitative data about how well the use of ASL ( American Sign Language) works in communicating with babies.

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

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

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

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Help your kid make beautiful coin rubbings to decorate a fun treasure box.

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

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

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

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

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

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

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

Test products which claim to reduce wrinkles, and determine which is the most effective. Test effectiveness over three weeks, using a sample of volunteers.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

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

The purpose of this science project is to investigate which will grow larger plants: compost, soil and Miracle - Gro, a mixture of both.