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1st and 2nd Grade Writing Activities : Page 2

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

Fact Versus Fiction

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Write a Seasonal Alphabet Poem

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Pencil Toppers

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

Pencil Shaving Art

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Make a 3-D Cartoon

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

Make a Dialogue Journal!

A Sonia-Inspired Activity: Poetry Read-Alouds

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.

Lucky Coins

Here&#39;s an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child&#39;s pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Write a Going Green Plan

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

Patriotic Poem

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

Make a Family History Fanfold Timeline!

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.

Put on a Poetry Party!

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

Make a Family Cookbook

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

Inspirational Quote Board

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.

Stuffed Animal Birth Certificate

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.

Create Your Own Pumpkin Person!

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

Codex Book

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

Cross-Stitch Painting

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

Terse Verse

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Paint and Learn

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! 

Discover the Colors of Fall

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

Paint a Summer Mural

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.

Superhero Dad

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

Summer Summary

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

Plan Stories with The Five-Finger Technique

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Can You Picture It?: A Writing Activity

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.

Write Parts of Speech Acrostic Poetry!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Design a Diorama!

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

Create a Story Summary Folder

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!

Make a Paper Bag Book

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