If your child loves sports, enjoys movie or craves social time with friends then engaging them in activities they love will not be difficult. But what if you are parenting a child who loves to write? A child with a rich and active imagination? Here are 7 creative writing prompts to gift your young writer when they reach to you for inspiration. Hand them their favourite notebook and pen, set a timer for fifteen minutes, and off they go!
- You open your front door to find a parcel on the doorstep with your name on it in big letters. You start to pull open the bow. Write from there.
- A vision appears in a dream one night – a boy or girl your age wearing strange clothes. They whisper: help me. The next day, you see the same person watching you from across the street. Write from there.
- You turn the corner on the way to school to find a huge, smoking hole in the middle of the road. Something is rising out of the hole…
- Imagine you find an old postcard under the floorboards in your home. It has been there a very long time. There’s an intriguing message on it So begins your quest…
- If you could go back in time to any event before your birth, when and where would you go? Write about that event from the perspective of someone who lived through it, but didn’t want to be there.
- Imagine you are sitting in exactly the spot you are in right now, but 1,000 years into the future. What do you see? What happens when you begin to explore?
- There’s a new teacher – or a new kid – in your school. They are not who they claim to be. What happens when you find a clue to their big secret?