Fun Writing Activities For Your Artistic Child

Nurturing creativity in children is good for their overall development. It provides opportunities for them to develop their skills in a way that works uniquely for them. As parents, we want to provide them with useful writing activities that make it enable them to develop their skills. We list down some fun writing activities you can do to improve your child’s creativity.

Activity for your three or four year old: Use glitter to write words

What you will need?

-          Glitter

-          Construction paper

-          Pencil

Preschoolers enjoy playing with glitter. What better way to learn how to write than with glitter. You can ask children to write in big letters using a glue stick. It’s a fun activity you can find in most reading and writing programs. With your supervision, instruct them to put some glitter on the paper. Make sure they don’t have glue in their hands or else the glitter will stick to their hands. Let dry and brush off any excess glitter and display. This activity allows them to be creative with their handwriting. Make them spell their name to increase their interest in spelling and handwriting.

Activity for your five year old: Stop the bus

Five year olds already have a pretty decent vocabulary. They know the words for most items in the house. The “stop the bus” activity allows them to explore their vocabulary even further.

How it works?

Ask your kid to sing the alphabet in their head. When you say “stop the bus” ask them to tell you which letter they stopped on. With a letter in mind, both of you have to think of a place, animal, name, thing that starts with that letter. Write the words in a piece of paper. If you want it to be a competition, the person who was able to come up with the most words wins. This activity encourages them to really think and improve their vocabulary.

Activity for your six or seven year old: Write a short story

Children who are six to seven years have a very active imagination. They enjoy reading story books or watching TV shows, movies, and cartoons. During play, they manifest what they learned from media into characters. Role playing is such a fun activity for them because they get to play their heroes and the story is theirs to control.

With this in mind, give them a small journal where they can write about their favourite characters. Have them develop the story with new scenarios that the characters have to face. Or, better yet, create their own storyline and characters. Encourage them to include drawings or illustrations to add to their story. Creating a short story would be a great activity for them because they get to read it after. It’ll also be a treat for you to see what their imagination can come up with.

There are so many more activities you can create in order to develop their reading and writing ability. Do you have a favourite kids writing activity? Share it with us.