Creative Writing Topics

Stumbling for creative writing topics? Here are some quick and easy ideas to use when teaching writing to children.

Students often need a creative writing prompt to jump-start their brains. Some children really struggle with finding enough to say that they think is worthwhile.

The more you prepare your students for the task at hand, the better the will respond to creative writing topics.

• Use an interactive read aloud prior to writing
• Brainstorm beginnings
• Chart a list of vocabulary words that might be used
• Model your own writing before your students write
• Draw a picture before putting words on paper
• Turn to your neighbor and tell your story first

Creative Writing Topics

Halloween Writing Prompts

1. The top 5 costumes you've ever seen on Halloween. Why they were so memorable to you and why you wish you'd thought of them first.

2. You go on a candy eating binge! Detail your feelings during the pig-out session, when you reach your breaking point, and how you feel the rest of the night (and following day).

3. You see an actual ghost on Halloween! Not necessarily an angry one, but definitely a depressed ghost. How do you help him cope with death and his haunting afterlife?

Thanksgiving Writing Prompts

1. The whole family is together and all the typical weird things that happen are in full-force this year. Detail a typical thanksgiving with your family, friends, and loved ones (and probably some hated ones in there too.

2. You've been transported to the original thanksgiving! Pilgrims, Indians and all. Is it really as nice as we make it out to be? Did two people bring the same item? Talk about your experience in the past.

3. What are you thankful for on this gratitude-rich holiday? Create a list of at least 10 and detail how you came to be thankful of these things.

Birthday Creative Writing Prompts

1. What is the best present that you've ever gotten for your birthday? Not necessarily the most expensive, but the one that was the most important to you. Talk about it and try to remember where that present is today.

2. Talk aboutt your best birthday cake experience, yours or someone else. Did you put your face in one? Did you eat five to ten pieces of one? Have fun with this one and really flesh everything out. Mmmmm, frosting.

Seasonal Creative Writing Topics

1. You meet the Abominable Snowman! Seems like a pretty cool dude, what do you talk about?

2. It is - 10 degrees F outside. What do you wear? Detail your dressing process for the extreme cold.

3. You have control over the weather and can create one perfect spring day. What do you do?

4. Pumpkins, corn husks, and scarecrows. What is the best set of fall-related decorations you've ever seen?

5. You are suddenly transported to the middle of some unknown dessert during the hottest part of the summer. How do you survive and get yourself to safety?

Creative Writing Topics for Kids

1. Talk about the teacher that you liked the most in school. What made you enjoy the class that he or she taught and why was this person so memorable to the present day?

2. Make a list of five things that you thought were completely awesome as a child. Write as if you are that age and describe why these things were so enjoyable for you.

3. Describe meeting your best friend in the world.

4. You have just walked into a spooky house! What is in the spooky house? Are there any people in the house? What do they say to you?

5. You have found a magic wand! You can do anything with it. What do you do? Do you share the wand with anybody else?

6. If you could be a character in any book or movie who would it be? What would you do differently and what would you do the same as the character? Why?

7. What is the most memorable dream or nightmare that you've ever had? Describe the dream from the beginning to the end and try not to leave out any details.

8. If you had your choice of living anywhere in the world where would it be? Why would you live there and what do you think would change about your life?

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