Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

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

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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 build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Mad Libs are fun, but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story!

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

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

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

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.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!