Bright Kids are Budding Poets

Budding poets at Bright Kids in Crabbs Cross

BRIGHT Kids children at Crabbs Cross recently entered the Young Writers; My Nursery Rhymes Creative Writing Competition. More . . .

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Here at Koetry for Pids, Max Tell features
a few inspirational articles
about poetry writing for kids

as well as his own inspirational blog posts.

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To read a few of Max's poems, check out The Land of Graws.

39 Ways to Paint with Your Kids

A little change of pace from poetry to visual arts.

Who says you have to use a plain old brush for painting? Part of raising creative kids is setting them up to  use items in new ways, to look at something and wonder, “What can I make with that?!” A great starting point is to expose them to simple projects likes these and create. Here are 39 different things you can paint with all with different painting activities for kids. Each item takes you to a full tutorial of a project where we used the specific tool. More . . . 

After the painting is done, perhaps it will inspire a poem.

Rhymes for the Young / Kenn Nesnitt

Spokane’s Kenn Nesbitt brings the nation’s kids the gift of poetry - Eli Francovich

Kenn Nesbitt has been named the children's poet laureate. [Photo: Jennifer DeBarros]

 

“For every line of poetry I have to think of 10 different ways to say it, to get the exact, best right way,” Nesbitt says. “Computer programming is the same way. You want to write code that is elegant, functional and concise and does what you want to do in the best possible way.” More . . .

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Now it's your turn. Write your own poem. Have fun, I did.

Don't forget to share your poems with family and friends. And don't forget to edit, edit, edit.

Fourth Graders: Writing Poetry Suits Them

Fourth graders at Alice Beal Elementary School

in Springfield find writing poetry suits them

Remi Goldrick, Eliana Sanchez and Emila Giovannini-Yarnell, from left, are three of the fourth graders at the Alice B. Beal Elementary School in Springfield who love to write poetry. (Mark M. Murray / The Republican)

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By Patricia Cahill, The Republican The Republican
on June 25, 2013 at 8:30 PM

SPRINGFIELD – Eliana Sanchez loves poetry. “During April vacation,” she said, “I was at my desk for hours writing poetry.” More . . .

Creativity: Writing and Rewriting / Jon Ims

Creativity

Writing and Rewriting "She's In Love With The Boy"

Courtesy of taxi.com

Jon Ims is a superb craftsman and a wonderful teacher. His song, "She's in Love With the Boy" was the breakout hit single for a Nashville demo singer named Trisha Yearwood. It introduced her to the world and established her career. Breakout singles are the hardest to select. There's a lot of promotion money riding on them and the choice has to be a good one. The industry is littered with the broken bones of careers that, once hopeful, simply died when the first single tanked and the record company decided maybe the artist wasn't as exciting to the public as the company thought. The combination of the song and artist was inspired. More . . .

For a video introduction to the article, watch How to Write Better Songs with John Braheny.