Children Funny Writing Prompts

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STORY STARTER

Write a story where the pets of a neighbourhood meet to criticise their owners in a secret night time club.

POEM STARTER

Imagine you are a young child attempting rhyming poetry for the first time.

Consider the language you use to reflect the child’s age. Also try to think about what would be an important topic for them to write about.

STORY STARTER

Write a story about a child creating a time capsule to be opened in 500 years.

What they include could be silly or useless, or maybe they have some interesting thoughts about the future.

STORY STARTER

Making friends with the ghost in your attic brings you many benefits as well as faults.

Use this sentence as an opening line to your story.

STORY STARTER

Submitted by willow myers

“If watching cartoons has taught me anything, it's…”

Fill in the blank, and have this idea from your character be a major part of the story.

POEM STARTER

Write a poem about pet peeves.

Little things that annoy you – perhaps they are stand-ins for bigger problems, perhaps they are nothing more.

STORY STARTER

Inspired bt Isabelle Rose

Write a scene where a child is accusing their parents of something.

Is it something completely innocent that the child doesn't understand, or more complex?

POEM STARTER

Write an ABC poem about a day in the life of an animal.

The lines of an ABC poem begin with different letters of the alphabet, progressing through alphabetical order, although the poem does not have to start at A.

POEM STARTER

Write an epigram about a family member.

Epigrams are usually short, witty poems of 2-4 lines that rhyme AABB.

STORY STARTER

Your character has been gifted a parrot as a pet. One day, it starts to talk, with interesting consequences...

WRITING OBSTACLE

Write a short dialogue between two dogs.

Think of how this will be different from a human dialogue, and how you can give them character traits through their interaction.

WRITING OBSTACLE

Write a description of something (anything!) containing a word beginning with each letter of the alphabet.

This should be fun and creative; don't worry about using the letters in order or for every word you write. Try to use less common words and think of new ways to describe things.

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