3rd - 5th Grade Writing Activities

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

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

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

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.

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

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

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

Create your very own "stained glass" flower, the perfect gift for mom this Mother's Day!

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Help your child learn more about the military by having him create a portrait of a soldier and write a short summary about why that soldier is important.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

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

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

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.

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

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

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

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.