Poetry Writing

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

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

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!

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

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

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

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

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

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