At Home Activities

Writing Ideas for Home

• Chalk your sidewalk: As a family, create comics, poems or stories on your sidewalk.
• Bedtime Stories: Write your own bedtime story as a family. Keep your stories close by for bedtime reading!
• Happy Notes: Parents, write a happy note to surprise your student. Sneak the encouraging note in your student’s lunchbox or book bag.
• Kid Notes: Kids, write your parents or siblings an encouraging note and leave it somewhere they will find it. Hide it in a briefcase, a laptop case, or on the kitchen counter.
• Collector: For a whole week, keep a basket of examples of ways your family writes every day. Collect grocery lists, emails, letters, etc.