All kids are full of imagination and curiosity. They are filled with never-ending questions full of curiosities, such as UFOs, Unicorns and rainbows. Children’s imagination is full of heroism, freedom, and fantasy. They have limitless creativity blooming inside them. So, using these sorts of unexpected and curious questions can be used to flourish their creativity and imagination. Parents or guardians can provide children with a healthy balance between trivial and thoughtful questions and talks, as they can help children get engaged in their interests as time passes. Children are known for their interest and love for experimenting, creativity, exploration and questioning of everything. And all these aspects of childhood can be used to encourage these behaviours with the help of daily or regular creative writing activities. Asking kids to write about their questions and what are their thoughts on the matter or make a story using their imagination. Writing a journal or a story regularly will not only improve their handwriting and writing skills but also their use of language, and expressions and increase creativity and imagination. Children can develop and nourish their creative skills by writing mostly. And journaling, story making, and poetry writing give them a chance to create new perspectives as well. Moreover, journal writing can help children to become able to write without the fear of prejudice and embarrassment.
Below are some creative writing activities for children;
Newspaper Story Writing
There is a very creative method of making your children interested in writing with the help of your daily newspaper. Parents can start by finding articles or headlines of their children’s interest and ask them to write what they learnt or think about the characters of the article. What is going on? And is there any other possible ending for the characters? In case, there are no interesting headlines for your children, you can just make a fun headline or two by taking words from multiple headlines in newspapers. You can ask your child to a story based on the headline given to them. Even if the same headline is given to two or more children, they all will create different stories, full of their own perspectives and individual creativity. Furthermore, it will also be fun to give them newspaper pictures with the headline or even separately, to create a story just from a picture.
Guessing Game
It will be a pretty fun and interesting writing activity to cut some photos of different sorts of people from newspapers/posters/magazines. After that parents can ask their children to select a couple of pictures from all. Then there are multiple types of writing activities that can be done using the pictures they selected for themselves. Firstly, parents can ask their children to write about who they think people in pictures are, what they do for a living and what kind of lives they live. Or you can also ask them to create a story it involves all the people in the picture, as characters of the story. Another fun way of using pictures could be to show pictures of different geographical locations and ask children to write what they think people in the picture are doing and how their lives are different from each other.
A Jar of Ideas
Another method of making writing fun for younglings is to make a jar filled with different sorts of ideas, even those that do not go together. Jar of ideas is not a new trend, but it’s such a fun method that it never got old either. Parents, or teachers, can start by writing different words or concepts on different pieces of paper. Words or concepts could be absurd nouns or interesting adjectives or even adventurous verbs, there’s no limit. After writing the ideas, place all the pieces of paper in a jar. Now whenever it’s time for the writing activity, the kid just needs to pull 2 or more pieces of paper, and write a story using those two or more words and concepts. For example, words on paper could be ‘blue’ and ‘mountain’, or it could be ‘joyous’, ‘hunting’ and ‘dragon’, there is no end of possible ideas this way and it becomes fun, creative and challenging as well, altogether.
