Easy Riddles for Kids
Kids love reading and writing riddle poems. Riddles often give wonderful sensory details and describe something a child knows about. Plus, they encourage critical thinking
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Kids love reading and writing riddle poems. Riddles often give wonderful sensory details and describe something a child knows about. Plus, they encourage critical thinking
Reuse your old magazines and create found poetry from the words and phrases you discover on their pages. Found poetry takes kids on a treasure hunt for
Many of you send out or post family updates around the holidays. But this year, why not have your children write your family newsletter? In
Get your imaginations ready for a fun experiential writing adventure! You’ll be taking your best friend (aka. favorite stuffed animal) for a walk and narrating
The picture book, Any Questions by Marie-Louise Gay, is the author’s answer to children about the writer’s journey — how to get ideas for a story. It’s an
I have the easiest writing idea for you to use with your kids . . . take photos of dolls or figurines for a story starter
Make your own book with this quick and easy handmade book idea. All you need are large notecards and a stapler. And, for illustration help, consider using
Our teenage babysitter gave us the BEST writing idea — and my kids took off with it! A Collaborative Email Story Writing Idea In a collaborative
Do your kids love the I Spy books by author Jean Marzollo with Walter Wick’s fabulous photographs from Scholastic? These classics along with other I Spy
Sometimes your kids need help with writing idea development. So grab a stuffed animal, tell a story, pretend play the story, then write it down!
You know those cute little erasers that are so popular right now? Well, use them to inspire a story idea for beginning writers! All ages
Get your kids jazzed about poetry during Poetry Month. A great way is to write about something edible — like popcorn – and work on
Photography inspires kids – heck, it inspires me, too! Get your child involved in a photo writing prompt idea. Give her a camera, and the
In her book Awakening the Heart, Georgia Heard shares heart mapping as a technique for children to generate ideas for writing. It’s even fun to do
Rachelle at TinkerLab, challenged bloggers to be creative with paper bags. Of course, I wanted to take a literacy angle and made a paper bag book that you
Combining art with writing often motivates children to write. I’ve tried different pop-up books with my classes and found it’s a prompt that often motivates
Becoming a playwright will get your kids writing. Using figures or dolls to write a Christmas play is a fun writing prompt that engrosses young writers.
by Susan Getty, mom, librarian, and blogger. Art Journals With Kids Post #2 (Art Journals With Kids Post #1) Art Journals with Kids In mid-November, I
Writing prompt idea for kids: make comic books with a parent! by Shauna MacKenzie, blogger at Kindergarten Confidential and mother. I’m always trying to
Guest blog by Sue Fliess, author of Shoes For Me. The idea of writing a book – a whole entire book! – can be (and
You know Lemony Snicket (aka. Daniel Handler) from his Series of Unfortunate Events. And, if you’ve read that series, you’ll be amply prepared for his
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