Kids are naturally curious and imaginative, always asking questions about everything, from UFOs and unicorns to rainbows.

Children’s imagination is full of heroism, freedom, and fantasy. They have limitless creativity blooming inside them. Using these unexpected and curious questions can help 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 everything. All these aspects of childhood can be encouraged with daily or regular creative writing activities.

• Asking kids to write about their questions or thoughts
• Making a story using their imagination
• Writing a journal or story regularly

These activities will improve handwriting, writing skills, use of language, expression, and creativity. Journaling, story making, and poetry writing also give children the chance to create new perspectives.

Moreover, journal writing can help children write without fear of prejudice or embarrassment.

Below are some creative writing activities for children:

Newspaper-Based Storytelling for Kids

A very creative method to get children interested in writing is using the daily newspaper.

• Parents can start by finding articles or headlines of interest to their children
• Ask them to write what they learnt or think about the characters of the article
• Questions like: What is going on? Is there another possible ending?

If there are no interesting headlines, parents can create fun headlines by combining words from multiple headlines. Children can then write stories based on these headlines.

Even if the same headline is given to multiple children, each story will be unique, full of their own perspectives and creativity.

Additionally, you can include newspaper pictures to inspire stories — either with or without the headline.

Imagination Through Images

This activity involves cutting photos of people or scenes from newspapers, posters, or magazines.

• Children select a couple of pictures
• They can write about:
  • Who the people are
  • What they do for a living
  • What kind of lives they live

Or, children can create a story using all the selected pictures as characters.

Another variation is to show geographical locations and ask children to write about:

• What the people in the picture are doing
• How their lives differ from each other

This activity encourages creative thinking and storytelling skills.

A Jar of Ideas

Another fun way to make writing exciting is a jar filled with random ideas.

• Parents or teachers write words or concepts on small pieces of paper
  • Nouns, adjectives, verbs — anything goes
• Place all pieces in a jar

Whenever it’s time to write, children pull 2 or more pieces and write a story using those words or concepts.

Example:

• Words could be “blue” and “mountain”
• Or “joyous”, “hunting”, and “dragon”

This method is creative, challenging, and fun, helping children think outside the box while building storytelling skills.