Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Writing Activities

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

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

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

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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

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

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

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!

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

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.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

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

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.