4th and 5th Grade Creative Writing Activities

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

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

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

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.

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!

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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!

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.