Writing Activities and Games
Writing activities to help show your child the fun side of learning! From easy writing activities to more advanced, we've got you covered! Use the selector on the right to narrow your search for writing activities by grade.
Make a Paper Bag Book
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 Roll Paper Cards
Here's a great homemade card idea that teaches your child a little something about giving.
Use Adjectives to Craft Season Shapes!
Get your child writing with this fun art activity! It's important for your second grader to practice writing paragraphs and her hone her grammar skills. In this activity, she'll do both as she uses adjectives to describe the four seasons on the back of four beautiful "season shapes"!
Create Awesome Apple Note Cards!
Here's a fresh fall activity for your child: create awesome apple note-cards! Whether she's giving it out as a birthday greeting to a family member or taking her teacher an apple on the first day of school, this hand-made card will be sure to brighten someone's day.
Branch Out: Create an Alphabet Tree!
Help your child to begin a life long love of the printed word by connecting simple letter recognition exercises with alphabet trees!
Art and Science Fun: Make a Shaving Cream Painting
Let your kindergartener squish his way to an understanding of colors with some shaving cream and food coloring. Here's a hands-on activity that shows your child how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.
Make a Family Encyclopedia!
Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family, and in the march of recent history, with this family album project.
Write a Deluxe Letter from Camp!
Is your child trying overnight camp this summer? If so, prepare your child for writing a letter home with this activity!
Write a List Poem
If you can write a list, you can write a poem! Help your child practice her writing while channeling her inner poet in this activity that has her composing an entire poem from a simple list.
Write an "I Used To, Now I" Poem
Children can sometimes find their past behavior very humorous and find it difficult to believe they once acted differently than they do now. In this activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice his writing skills as he creates an "I Used to, Now I" poem.
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