Fun Writing Activities for Kids

Summer Writing Activities for Kids while School is Out

Kids’ summer activities usually include sunshine and swimming, water and fun. A writing activity might not seem like something that any child might want to do, but you may be surprised at how easy it can be to get kids involved in letter writing activities as part of their itinerary of kids’ summer activities.

Retain School Skills with Summer Writing Activities for Kids

Summer writing activities help to keep kids on their toes during the summer months when it’s easy for them to forget what they’ve learned in school. Often, teachers end up using most of September reviewing and refreshing their classes with what they learned the previous year. Incorporating summer writing activities during your kids’ summer break gives them a leg up and can help boost their confidence for the new school year. What’s more, many writing activities also help establish common rules of etiquette and foster positive habits in good manners.

How to Incorporate Writing into Summer Activities for Kids

Many typical summer experiences naturally lend themselves to simple and fun writing activities.

Keeping in Touch with School Friends: For many children, while summer activities are fun, they also lack the daily social interaction with their peers at school. Sometimes distance keeps them apart from friends they have grown very close to during the school years. Encouraging children to write letters to friends is a great way to help them feel close, share their highlights of summer and getting  excited about returning to school. 

If your child complains of being bored or lonely without school friends around, encourage him or her to sit down and compose a letter.  Not only will letter writing skills get honed, but your child can practice expressing his or her feelings in writing, and feel closer to the ones they miss.

Even a school teacher would appreciate a nice summer note from a fondly regarded student. If your student tends to be shy or nervous about the new school year , helping your child write a letter to the upcoming year’s teacher can help him or her feel more connected, more confident and maybe even impress the new teacher!

Perfect for younger boys, Choo Choo Notes are so colorful and fun, while no little girl could resist the pull of Little Lollipop notes that are sweet enough to eat! A set of personalized note cards such as these or any of the other selections of personalized stationery at Giftsin24.com would also make a great gift for a childhood playmate who is moving away. A box for your child and a box for a pen pal and the mailman will struggle to keep up as new pen pals write away!

Writing from Summer Camp: The camp experience naturally lends itself to letter writing. Before you send you away to camp, supply him or her with a box of personalized stationery or note cards to keep in touch and share their summer fun. For example, a tween girl might enjoy our “Sprightly Note” cards, while an older teen would surely enjoy designing his or her own Tyme Correspondence card by choosing personalized colors and having his or her name professionally printed.

Include a quality pen and don’t forget to pre-stamp the envelopes to make this summer writing activity as simple and enjoyable as possible. And don’t forget to write back and send cookies!

If your child doesn’t go away to camp, even a day camp experience for kids can involve writing.Just as they make special connections during the school year, camp friends and counselors can become good inspiration to keep kids writing to stay in touch. Also, learning to acknowledge the extra efforts of those who bring positive experiences to our lives, such as a camp counselor who goes above and beyond to make camp fun, is a great way segue into how to…

Add Thank You Notes to Summer Activities for Kids

Often still considered a chore at the top of the procrastination list, writing thank you notes can be made into a simple and enjoyable activity for kids, especially if they are given fun tools like colored pens and personalized thank you notes. To help foster this often ignored but very important etiquette protocol, it helps to have your child choose his or her own style of thank you notes.  Starting the habit of writing thank you notes with kids at a young age can actually eliminate the sentiment that writing thank you notes is a chore to be avoided. Your kids won’t consider it a dull activity if you make it exciting from the start!

Girls of all ages would be thrilled to see their names printed on their very own Pink Tower Thank You Notes. Boys  will likely resonate more with our Polka Dot Notes in bright colors. The idea is to allow your child to choose his or her very own personalized stationery to create a sense of ownership and excitement.

Don’t Forget the Final Inspiration for Kids’ Summer Writing Activities

The joy that comes when the postman brings a well deserved reply!

In fact, you can even use the motivation to get your kids writing letters as your own inspiration, too. Set a good example by sitting down with them, or better yet, write a letter to your child and mail it! Once kids experience the good feelings from letter writing or and receiving thank you notes for a nicely cleaned room or a chore well done, they will be more likey to embrace your ideas for summer writing activities, and even thank you notes will not be met with groans.