Writing Activities : Page 6

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.

The objective of this science fair project is to determine whether drawing with the right side or the left side of your brain will produce a better picture.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

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

Help your third grader practice his writing skills and learn to operate household appliances like the washing machine or DVR with this Family How-to guide!

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

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

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

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

The objective of this science fair project idea is to explore which brands of "anti-fade" shampoos work the best to keep hair color looking fresh.

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

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

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

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Show your teens the connection between making history and writing it by having them write, illustrate, and edit a newspaper from the past.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

This project examines whether more expensive golf balls translate into better results on the golf course.

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!