Six Creative Writing Projects for Kids

Grade-school kids love to write creatively, even if they don’t have the best writing skills. If your kids are looking for something creative to do, why not try challenging them with a story idea and asking them to write about it.

It’s raining outside. Your grade-schooler is sitting around watching TV or contemplating how to bug her older siblings. Time to jump into action as the parent with the creative ideas for rainy days. There’s paint. Done that. There’s cutting and pasting. Done that and swept up the scraps of paper. There’s play dough. Done that, added water, did it some more. What creative activity is left for you to give your kids to do? How about writing?

Writing?

Writing doesn’t just have to be for school and it doesn’t have to be something your child stumbles upon on her own devices. You encourage your kids to do fine arts, read, play sports in their free time and see these things as fun- why not do the same for writing?

Maybe your kid doesn’t have the greatest writing skills or the biggest writing vocabulary in her class. (Though you may have noticed she’s pretty good at spelling phonetically...) Or maybe your kid has already begun to associate writing with homework and boring things. These are two great reasons to turn writing into a fun at-home activity. By giving your grade-schoolers some creative writing prompts in a casual, fun atmosphere, they can experiment, not worry about getting everything right, and practice their writing skills at the same time. They may begin to love writing or at least not dislike it.

To make creative writing even more fun, consider giving your child a special notebook, funky paper, cool colored pens or pencils or other writing accessories to help him connect writing can be fun and exciting.