Spring Acrostic Poems

Natalie came across some acrostic poems recently and wanted to try one of her own. She loves writing poems!

Acrostic poems use the letters of a topic word (in our case, SPRING) to begin each line. Each word or phrase of the poem should describe or relate to the topic.

The girls started with some brainstorming in their journals – pictures and lists of spring words:

On scratch paper, we wrote the word SPRING and they chose a word for each letter.

Natalie’s poem:

Sun

Pond

Rain

Iris

Nest

Grass

Delaney’s poem:

Sun

Plants

Robin

Insect

Nest

Garden

Then, they dreamed up an art project for their poems. I helped by cutting the letters to spell spring from watercolor paper, which they decorated with pastels and watercolors. The letters were glued down and stems added to make them into flowers. They also added some fringe-style grass at the bottom. Finally, the words for their poems were written on the stems.

I’ve had these hanging up on our art wall and they are so pretty!

ReadWriteThink has a fun interactive acrostic poem module – it provides a definition and guides you through brainstorming words and creating your poem.  You can print the finished poem at the end. Pretty neat! I’ll be bookmarking it for both my girls to revisit when the poetry-writing bug strikes.

Happy Writing!

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