Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Prewriting Activities

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.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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.

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

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

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

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

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

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

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

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

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

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!