🦸 Superhero Poems KS2 | Fun Writing & Performance Ideas

Superheroes are always a hit with children — from comics to the big screen to their own playground games, heroes and villains capture imagination instantly. That makes them a brilliant theme for KS2 poetry.

In this post, you’ll find funny superhero poems for KS2 (including a shape poem!) and plenty of ready-to-use classroom activities to inspire your pupils’ own writing and performances.

👉 In my Poetry Days in primary schools across the UK I work hard to get the children excited about writing and performing their own poems. I visit over 100 schools every year and I’d love to work with your children and teachers.

📅 You can book me for:

• In-person Poetry Days across the UK

• Online Poetry Workshops (affordable and flexible)

➡ Secure your date here: Poets in Schools – Ian Bland

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🦇 Mr Batt(Man) – Shape Poem

✍️ Activity Idea: Shape Poem Superheroes

• Provide pupils with superhero outlines (cape, mask, shield).

• Ask them to fill the shape with words, sounds, or poems about a superhero they invent.

• Encourage sound effects (BANG! ZAP! WHOOSH!) and action verbs.

• Display their shape poems around the classroom as a “Hall of Heroes” wall.

👉 Related blog: Shape Poems KS2

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🥣 SOUPERMAN

Here to fight for truth, justice and a lightly seasoned bowl of minestrone…

Is it an oxtail?
Is it a gumbo?

NO IT’S SOUPERMAN!

Faster than a flying ladle!
Hotter than a spicy chilli!
Stronger than a French onion!

IT’S SOUPERMAN!

Spilled your chowder?
Frozen your gazpacho?
Over-boiled your bouillon?

CALL SOUPERMAN!

Laser eyes to reduce that lobster bisque in seconds…
X-Ray vision to prevent that burning vegetable broth…
Ice cold breath to tame that evil mulligatawny.

✍️ Activity Idea: Foodie Heroes

• Pupils invent their own food-themed superheroes (e.g. Captain Carrot, Banana Girl).

• Write short descriptive or riddle-style poems about their powers.

• Groups act them out in mini “superhero showdowns.”

👉 Related blog: Food Poems KS2

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💪 My Mum is Wander Woman!

Is she an Amazonian Warrior Princess fighting
For justice, love and peace in a bleak crime ridden city?

Err no, she’s gone to Morrison’s to get some flapjacks for my gran…

OK… but has she terrified her enemies by hurling her tiara and trapping them with her lasso of truth?

Err no, she’s gone to Zumba classes with my sister,
She’ll be back at about 7.30…

I see… but has she deflected bullets with her indestructible bracelets while flying her invisible plane?

Err no, she’s gone to the park for a power walk with the dogs and my Dad.
She’s not in much, I’ll tell her you’ve called!

✍️ Activity Idea: Everyday Heroes

• Pupils write about someone at home as if they were a superhero.

• Mix humour and truth — e.g. “Dad can juggle three shopping bags,” “Mum can do four jobs at once.”

• Collect into a “Family of Heroes” anthology for display.

👉 Related blog: Family Poems KS2

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😈 Mr McMillan – The Teacher That’s a Supervillain…

I’m the cat
That sits on the lap
Of Mr McMillan the supervillain teacher
His dangerous creature
His jet-black attack pet
His not so cute feline brute
His crabby grouchy tabby
His nitty picky kitty

I’m hard to please
I’m dangerous
I’m unpredictable
I’m unaccountable
I ruin people’s lives
I appear out of nowhere…

My name is OFSTED
I don’t know why…

His class of 30 now down to 13
Unlucky for some…

Children disappear here
Flick of a switch their chair tilts backwards and…
‘Can I go to the toilet……….?’
Gone
‘It’s not fair………..!’
Gone
‘7×7 is 40…………!’
Gone
‘I’ve got rights………!’
Gone

I don’t know where they go but I will say this –
Mr McMillan’s sharks look very well fed…

✍️ Activity Idea: Villain Voices

• Explore how tone and expression change meaning.

• Pupils read lines as “evil cats,” “power-mad villains,” or “scared pupils.”

• Groups invent their own supervillain teacher poem (e.g. Mrs Stricta – The Homework Hulk).

👉 Related blog: Performance Poetry KS2

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😡 The Incredible Sulk

When things don’t go the way he planned,
He folds his arms and makes a stand.
He stamps his feet, he shakes his head,
Then sulks for hours on his bed.

His power? Making people wait,
He’ll cross his arms and block the gate.
He doesn’t fight, he doesn’t talk,
He just refuses… to do the walk.

Beware this grumpy, moody hulk…
The one and only Incredible Sulk!

✍️ Activity Idea: Emotion Heroes & Villains

• Pupils invent superheroes or villains based on emotions (e.g. The Giggle Girl, Captain Kindness, The Incredible Sulk).

• Write short descriptive poems about their powers, exaggerating how these emotions “take over.”

• Link with PSHE by discussing how feelings affect us, and how to turn negative “villain” traits into positive “hero” ones.

• Perform the poems in groups — one child reads while others act out the emotion in freeze frames.

👉 Related blog: Feelings & Emotions Poems KS2

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🎯 Why Superhero Poems Work in KS2

• Instant engagement — children LOVE superheroes.

• Builds vocabulary through action words, powers, and exaggeration.

• Brilliant for humour, parody, and drama.

• Links directly with PSHE (exploring “what makes a hero?”).

👉 In my Poetry Days in primary schools across the UK I work hard to get the children excited about writing and performing their own poems. I visit over 100 schools every year and I’d love to work with your children and teachers.

📅 You can book me for:

• In-person Poetry Days across the UK

• Online Poetry Workshops (affordable and flexible)

➡ Secure your date here: Poets in Schools – Ian Bland