Early Childhood Writing Activities

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

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.

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

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

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!

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

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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

Help your preschooler craft her very own announcement to celebrate the special transition to "big kids" school!

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

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.