April is National Poetry Month. Here are just a few ways you can celebrate at home this year:

1. Read a poem every day. You can find many on the American Academy of Poets Poems for Kids page.
2. Write your own poem. Check out these Scholastic resources about writing poems.
3. Use sidewalk chalk to share a poem on your sidewalk or driveway. (Remember, if you use someone else’s poem, give credit!)
4. Create blackout poetry. Please only use books or materials (magazines, newspapers, etc.) that your parents are OK with you ripping pages out of and drawing on!
5. Recite a poem out loud. This can be for the people (or pets) you live with or over FaceTime/Skype/etc. to family and friends in other places.
6. Read a novel-in-verse
7. Create some book spine poetry.
8. Make a poetry picture. Find a poem that you like in a book or online. If you’re stuck, you can find poems on the page linked in item #1 of this list.  Write it down on a blank piece of paper or print it out. Then embellish around the poem . You can draw, paint, use collage techniques, whatever strikes your fancy!
9. Harper Collins has posted a bunch of Shel Silverstein activities