Roll to Create a Holiday Poem

Are you looking for a way to shake up your poetry writing lessons? Look no further than Teach Starter’s Roll-a-Poem dice game!

This game is a fun and engaging way to get your students’ imaginations flowing and inspire new ideas for holiday poems. To play, students roll a die to randomly select a type of poem, a mood and a holiday-related subject, giving them a creative challenge. Once the students roll, they used their rolled combination to write a fun and creative poem. By rolling for their poem’s structure, tone and topic, students are encouraged to think outside the box and embrace the spontaneity of poetry creation.

This roll-a-poem pack contains the following holiday topics:

• Christmas
• Valentine’s Day
• Birthdays
• St. Patrick’s Day

A blank template is also provided so that students can create moods and subjects for a topic of their choice.

Use This Holiday Poem Activity in Your Classroom

This versatile poetry game can be used in multiple ways in your classroom. Here are just a handful of ideas from our expert teacher team:

1. Holiday Poetry Contest – Organize a poetry contest in which students roll to create a poem and then decorate their finished work with festive visuals. Encourage creativity both in their writing and their presentation. Display the completed poems on a holiday-themed bulletin board for all to see.
2. Classroom Poetry Game – Turn this activity into a class game! Pair up students or create small groups, then have them roll the dice together to create a group poem. Afterwards, each group can present their poem to the class, highlighting how different combinations of poem types, moods and subjects lead to unique results.
3. Seasonal Poetry Journal – Throughout the holiday season, students can use the worksheets to roll for a new poem every week, keeping a poetry journal filled with their seasonal writings. This approach promotes consistency in writing practice and allows students to reflect on how their poems evolve over time.

Download to Start Writing Holiday Poems

This dice game downloads as an easy-print PDF or editable Google Slides file. Use the Download button to select your preferred file option. (Note: You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides template on your personal drive before accessing it.)

As this resource contains multiple versions, we recommend printing one copy of the entire file, removing the version you require, then making copies for students.

This resource was created by Samantha Rose, a teacher in Florida and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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