A free, printable pack of 30 creative writing prompts: picture prompts, story starters and opening lines from classic poems, to get children writing at home or in class.
PDF, 30 pages, one prompt per page, ready to print or show on a screen.
What’s inside
- Picture prompts: strange and magical pictures to write a story about, from an explorer’s desk to a giant fish floating through the sky
- Story starters: first lines to finish, such as “I picked up the strange lightbulb and saw…”
- Poem openers: lines from classic poems to continue in any style – it doesn’t have to rhyme!
- A few extra challenges: list every sound you can hear, write a non-fiction report about a unicorn, or explain how the fox got its bushy tail
Five prompts to try now
- Continue this opening: “I heard a butterfly say to a bee, ‘You have no beautiful colours like me.’”
- Continue this opening: “The Wind said to the Moon, ‘I will blow you out!’”
- Write a story which begins like this: “I picked up the strange lightbulb and saw…”
- Use the picture to write a story which starts like this: “My pet is rather strange…”
- Write a story about how the fox got its bushy tail!
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