Elementary School Creative Writing Activities

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

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

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

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.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

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

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

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!

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

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

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

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

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

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.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.