About Author Steve Hanson

Steve Hanson is the author of The Dax and Zippa Series, Monsters Midnight Feast, Wizards In The West, Butterflies Don't Chew Bubblegum and The Whens. View his Profile.

Short Kids Poem: Halloween Costume

short kids poem costume
For Halloween I dressed as Clipper-Vix-Vad,
the scariest beast that the world’s ever had.

His deafening howl can send chills to the bone.
His eyes have been known to turn men into stone.

He’s mean to the core and as sharp as a tack.
Don’t go out alone! (If you do, watch your back.)

He’s ten times as deadly as a battleship,
but sadly he looks like a big paperclip.



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Online Kids Madlibs: Halloween

Mad Libs! Jumble of pencils
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A Scary Thing:

Adjective:

Number:

Verb:

Person:

Food (plural):

Adjective:

A Monster:

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Thing:


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Short Kids Poem: Car

kids poem parking sign

My father is proud of the car he just bought.
It’s the top-of-the-line! Newest car on the lot!

If you step on the gas, it will purr like a jet.
There isn’t a race car that’s beaten us yet.

But I am ashamed when he drives me to school:
It looks like a toilet (with pooh for its fuel!)



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Parents Aren’t Perfect

tissue box

Last month my son got sick and I thought I was helping him, but when I called the nurse hotline, she recommended the opposite of what I was doing. Aside from the fact that I’d be the worst doctor, that experience made me realize that parents aren’t perfect: we’re just trying our best.

I think imperfection can be hard to cope with because society tells us we have to be perfect. Buy this product to get the perfect body. Drink this drink to attract the perfect mate. With all those messages of perfection, it’s hard to believe humans are imperfect. We’re all just trying our best.

My wife and I try to embrace our imperfection. It’s our quirks that keep us interesting and human. It’s the imperfections in characters and the flaws in their plans that keep us turning pages in our favorite book.

Online Kids Madlibs: Apples

Mad Libs! Jumble of pencils
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Adjective:

Thing:

Food:

Adverb:

Color:

Place:

Verb:

Person:

Thing:

Food:


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Kids Poem: My Pet Fly

kids poem fly

I’d like you to meet Robert:
he’s my new pet fly.
He’s sitting on my shoulder
because he is quite shy.

his work is serving ice-cream cones
at the downtown mall.
He’s fabulous at soccer…
if you have a tiny ball.

He taught me how to dance.
We do the do-see-doe.
We’re going to start a band
He plays a small banjo.

He loves my bedside lamp,
but only when it’s on.
His favorite food is Cole-slaw
that’s been sitting on my lawn.



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Online Kids Madlibs: Aliens

Mad Libs! Jumble of pencils
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Adjective:

Phrase:

Silly Word:

Verb:

Thing:

A Game:

Food:

Person:

Animals (plural):

Person:


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Short Kids Poem: Time Machine

kids poem time machine

I think I’ve just broken my new time machine:
Wherever I travel to I’m forced to clean.

I wanted to ride through the old wild west
But to many undershirts had to be pressed.

I traveled to China to see the Great Wall.
Instead I raked leaves because it was fall.

I thought that Atlantis would be a short stop
until someone showed me what I had to mop.

I thought that Mount Fuji would be fun to climb
But too many windows were covered in grime.

Do you think you can help? I’m really in need.
I want to see castles — and not pull a weed!



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