November is “National Novel Writing Month” – but your child doesn’t have to write a novel to enjoy the process of creating a story!
Creative writing activities help children:
* Develop important thinking processes
* Expand inventive and imaginative skills
* Communicate ideas to others
* Convey feelings and emotions
* Organize thoughts and sequencing
* Exercise reasoning and problem-solving skills
* Practice analytical and cognitive skills
* Enjoy learning and retaining knowledge longer
The age of your child is no barrier to creating stories, either. Even if she or he isn’t yet writing, children are still very adept at imagining stories and sharing them with others. You can write down the stories for them, illustrate them together, then create booklets containing their stories.
Reading their stories aloud, re-imagining them, or developing new stories sparked by their previous stories can establish a lifelong love of reading, writing, and creating.
Older children can create stories based on Writing Prompts such as those shared on the sites listed below.
Here, kids will have hundreds of writing ideas to keep them creating over the coming weeks, months, and years! Not to mention the spin-off learning that naturally occurs when children read and write! Enjoy!
* 300 Writing Prompts for Kids (PDF):
https://shakeragalley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/300-writing-prompts-for-kids-list.pdf
* 300 Fun Writing Prompts for Kids:
https://thinkwritten.com/writing-prompts-for-kids/
* 225 Creative Writing Prompts for Kids:
https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/blog/writing-prompts-for-kids/
* 140 Creative Writing Prompts for Kids:
https://www.squibler.io/learn/writing/writing-prompts/writing-prompt-for-kids/
* 100 Writing Prompts for Kids:
https://www.3plearning.com/blog/writing-prompts-for-kids/
For More Leaning Activities, see A Year's Worth of Learning Ideas, 500+ Science Experiments; Hands-On Math Activities; 40+ STEM/STEAM Activities; Free Worksheets for Math, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies; Unschooling Activities; and much more here on our blog.
Happy homeschooling!
