Writing Activities : Page 4

Discover which absorbent material is the best; the Shamwow, paper towels, or cotton towels.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

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.

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

Science fair project which evaluates different athletic shoes in order to find out whether any of them affect a person's ability to run.

Look for correlation between pH values of commercial soaps and detergents and manufacturer claims about eye irritation hazards.

Check out this hot project idea to culture bacteria and determine if the claims about the anti-bacterial properties of curry and cinnamon are true.

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.

Multiplication facts are a necessary skill, and this board game provides a fun way for your third grader to practice them!

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

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

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

Study the anatomy of the brain and the functions of the corpus callosum. Research split brain surgery and its impact on advances in neuroscience.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

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!

The purpose of this science project is to investigate which will grow larger plants: compost, soil and Miracle - Gro, a mixture of both.

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

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

Test products which claim to reduce wrinkles, and determine which is the most effective. Test effectiveness over three weeks, using a sample of volunteers.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

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.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

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.

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